title: [The social network--on a sociologic concept in psychiatry].
abstract: For quite some time has been a boom of social network analysis in the field of social psychiatry in Western industrial countries. Their main hypothesis is that the scope and quality of a person's social relations have a specific connection with this person's psychic health. This article exemplifies some specialized studies on the subject. In spite of the fact that the way in which the concept of social networks was applied has been criticized for being empiristic and reductionist, the author stresses its potential for socio-psychiatric research and practice and pleads for its application in the G.D.R.
authors: Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Institut für Soziologie und Sozialpolitik.
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authors: Bialas
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support
vernacular_title: Soziale Netzwerke--Zu einer soziologischen Konzeption in der Psychiatrie.