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11 Systems TheoryBRUCE D. FRIEDMAN AND KAREN NEUMAN ALLEN3 Biopsychosocial asse ssm ent and the develop-ment of appropriate intervention strategies fora part icular client require consideration of the indi -vidu al in relation to a larger social context. Toaccomplish this, we use principles and conceptsderived from Systems Theory . Systems Theory is away of elaborati ng i ncreasingly c ompl ex systemsacross a continuum that e nco mpas ses the per son-in-environment (Anderson, Carter, & Lowe, 1999). Systems Theory also enables us to understand thecomp onents and dynamics of client Systems in orderto interpret problems and develop balance d inter-vention strategies, with the goal of enhancing t he goodness of fit between individuals and theirenvironments. Systems Theory does not specify par-ticula r theoretical f ram eworks for understandingproblems, and it does not direc t the so cial worker tospecific interventi on st rategi es.

context (Merton, 1938). These concepts are identified in Figure 1.1, where the system exists within a social environment. Thus, certain factors in the social environment affect the system and its outcomes and outputs. The system also interfaces with other systems or collateral sys-tems. There are expectations on the role and func-

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