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Walker Final Proof - SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
01-Walker-4399-Ch-01-Part I.indd 3 12/06/2012 7:17:39 PM. 4 PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Modern systems theory, and its link with family therapy and the systemic ideas that have developed from it, is generally credited with emerging in the 1950s as a result
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