Personal networks of ex-mental patients in a Manhattan SRO hotel.

Jay Sokolovsky, Carl Cohen, Dirk Berger, Josephine Geiger

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Abstract

Excerpt: “This paper describes the results and implications of the first systematic investigation of the social organization of ex-patients, clinically labelled as schizophrenic, who are residing in a large Manhattan Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotel. In doing this, we have focused on the structure of this population's personal networks in order to: (1) Delineate the morphological characteristics of individual networks (viz., size, content, directionality, density) and their relationship to psychiatric diagnosis. (2) Determine whether the structure of the network matrix can serve as a predictive index of subsequent community performance (i.e., necessity for rehospitalization).” (p.4)

Original languageAmerican English
JournalDefault journal
StatePublished - Jan 1 1978

Keywords

  • Mentally ill-post-hospital adjustment
  • Schizophrenia
  • Single room occupancy
  • Social structure

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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