title: [The appropriate social network: an operative instrument for the evaluation of indications for psychiatric hospitalization].
abstract: The role of hospitalization in the treatment of mental disease is reviewed. In support of this paper, contributions emphasizing the role society plays in causality and reparative techniques as well are referred to. Conservation or deterioration of a patient's own social network--both primary and secondary groups--is suggested as an observable parameter in clinical practice. The extent of deterioration may suitably clarify whether hospitalization is advisable. The authors envision hospitalization as an essential means because the patient is given an artificial or substitute network--his or here reinsertion wherein being stimulated accordingly--at the same time the natural network is being restored.
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Graña
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de los Santos
mesh_terms: D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013808:Therapeutic Community
vernacular_title: Red social de pertenencia: un instrumento operativo para evaluar la indicación de internación psiquiátrica.