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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.

environments. Systems theory does not specify par-ticular theoretical frameworks for understanding problems, and it does not direct the social worker to specific intervention strategies. Rather, it serves as an organizing conceptual framework or metatheory for understanding (Meyer, 1983). As a profession, social work has struggled to

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