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Walker Final Proof
1 SYSTEMS THEORYINTRODUCTIONOne of the earliest references to social work and systems theory goes as far back as the mid-1970s (Forder, 1976). At that time the theory was being articulated most notably in works seeking to provide social workers with a unitary model of practice (see Goldstein, 1973; Pincus and Minahan, 1974), one that could offer a holistic framework within which to place social work practice. Social work as a new profession was evolving and experimenting with ideas from psychology, sociology and social policy to try to find an identity and set of skills based on solid theories: as a result there was a lot of effort expended into creating a professional identity, value base and intellectual framework that could explain what social work was.
SYSTEMS THEORY Thinking of families as living systems with all the dynamics that this implies was quite revolutionary in its time as it challenged the prevailing orthodoxies which perceived emotional and psychological problems in individual terms: Family therapy … looks at problems within the systems of relationships in which they
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