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Clinical use of network analysis for psychiatric and aged populations

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Despite a recent renewal of interest in natural community support networks and self-help groups, there currently exist no systematic therapeutic approaches for working with network systems. Over the past two decades advances in the field of social network analysis have laid the groundwork for its conversion to a clinical tool. This paper illustrates how network analysis can provide quantitative and qualitative data useful in therapeutic interventions and agency planning decisions.

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  1. Office of Urban Health Affairs, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, 10016, New York, NY

    Carl I. Cohen M.D., M.A. (Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, USA

    Jay Sokolovsky Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)

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The authors wish to thank Joan Mintz, Henry Rajkowski, Alan Laskow, Lynne Stein, John Stern, Mindy Horrow, Alissa Fox, Simeon Feinberg, the Bellevue Geriatrics Unit, and the Murray HIll SRO Project for Their assistance. This research was partially supported by grants from the Ittleson Foundation, the New York Foundation, and the vanAmeringen Foundation.

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Cohen, C.I., Sokolovsky, J. Clinical use of network analysis for psychiatric and aged populations. Community Ment Health J 15, 203–213 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00766008

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