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Community Social Work Practice

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This does not mean that we cannot examine the individual parts of the system in the same way that a physician might focus on the heart or the liver for conditions specific to those organs. However, at some point the social worker must look at an entire neighborhood just as the physician must look at the entire body in order both to understand the nature of the problem and to come up with solutions to it. Moreover, and this is inherent in a systems approach, it is imperative to examine the system as a whole and the ways in which the different subparts interact if one is going to be able to identify the strengths that reside in both the whole and the parts

A social worker could actually use systems theory to analyze Mott Haven as well as to offer possible solutions to some of the neighborhood's problems in several ways. I should make it clear that while systems theorists are concerned about whole systems, this does not mean that they do not also consider the dynamics of subsystems. For example, a social worker might well consider the nature of the dynamics in a particular family, the dynamics