Good friends are hard to find? the social networks of people with mental illness 12 years after deinstitutionalisation

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-14

  Forrester Jones, Rachel ^a   Carpenter, John ^b   Coolen Schrijner, Pauline ^c   Cambridge, Paul ^a   Tate, Alison ^d   Hallam, Angela ^e   Beecham, Jennifer ^a,f   Knapp, Martin ^g   Wooff, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Statistics Consultancy Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Scottish Executive   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deinstitutionalisation; Mental illness; Social networks; Support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FRIEND; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; NURSING HOME; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRIENDS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84856030598     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: 13600567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2011.608743     Document Type: Article

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