in this article, methods of intervention for increasing the social relationship of chronic psychiatric patients are discussed. the three interventionprocedures are: 1) development of new social relationships 2) maintaining and reinforcing the existing social relationships and 3) improving family relationships.in addition, theproblems of implementing these procedures and the role of mental healt...

in this book, elizabeth frazer offers a detailed study of the concept of community; and examines political and philosophical communitarianism. more specifically, she analyzes the relationships between communitarianism and interpretivism, social constructionism, locality, family life and finally politics.

This study aimed to describe the dynamics of intergenerational family relationships from the viewpoint of the elderly. It is a study of qualitative approach, developed with 32 elderly people registered in the coverage area of a Family Health Program in a city in the state of Bahia. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews during the first half of 2013, through home visits. We appl...

Family and Gang as Agents of Socialization The family, conceived primarily as a child-rearing agency, and the gang, defined in some detail in the last chapter, were both prevalent forms of associational units in Midcity. It is important to repeat at this point that the term “family” as used in the present work refers to that kinship-based associational unit which bears primary responsibility fo...