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Social Networks and the Long Term Patient

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The Chronic Psychiatric Patient in the Community

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There has been a general concensus over many years that social relationships constitute a major area of difficulty for psychiatric patients. Only recently, however, has there begun to be an interest in studying the systematic properties of these social relationships as structured networks of connections, and in the implications of these network properties for the course of illness and for treatment.

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  1. Health Services Research and Development Center, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA

    Ivan Barofsky Ph.D.

  2. McLean Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA

    Richard D. Budson M.D. (Director, Community Residential Services) (Director, Community Residential Services)

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Hammer, M. (1983). Social Networks and the Long Term Patient. In: Barofsky, I., Budson, R.D. (eds) The Chronic Psychiatric Patient in the Community. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6308-8_3

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