title: [Social networks and mental disease].
abstract: This is a three-purpose study: (a) Furthering a definition of social network analysis since such a theoretical and methodological approach is of great interest to studying social interaction, (b) Analyzing the social networks within one psychiatric case study in order to build up a network interaction model aiming at fostering future research, this interaction model being used as a concept framework, and (c) Discussing how fruitful research on social networks can prove to be in connection with the treatment of the mentally ill, as well as considering the protective and supportive functions of these networks.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Epidemiología Psiquiátrica, Dirección Nacional de Salud Mental, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Marco
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Colombo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
vernacular_title: Redes sociales y enfermedad mental.