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C H Stein

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PubMed2001

Searching for a normal life: personal accounts of adults with schizophrenia, their parents and well-siblings.

Using a life course perspective, the research examines personal accounts of adults with schizophrenia, and their parents and well-siblings from six families. Accounts of multiple members of the same family, including the family member with schizophrenia, are used to describe how families understand and accommodate life changes that result from the illness. Families describe the loss of a "normal life" as one of the most devastating aspects of schizophrenia. We present the personal and social losses described by adults with schizophrenia and their well family members, and document families' search for ways that their ill family member can achieve or maintain valued social roles. The concerns of well family members for the future of the ill family member and ways families contemplate transfer of care issues are described. Implications of the study for community research and action are discussed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1995

Assessing the social networks of people with psychiatric disability from multiple perspectives.

The study uses a sample of 97 new members of a mutual-help organization for the seriously mentally ill and 97 of their significant others (61 family members and 36 friends) to examine 1) the degree to which respondents' perceptions of dyadic relationships can be corroborated by network members and 2) the relationship of congruence of perception between respondent-network member pairs, characteristics of respondents' social networks and self-reported symptoms and social adjustment. Results showed strong variability in the degree to which respondents' perceptions were corroborated by network members, with a higher degree of corroboration for factual information such as face-to-face contact than for global aspects of dyadic relationships. Congruence of perception between respondents and family was associated with respondents' feelings of satisfaction about the quality of network ties and better psychological and social functioning. In contrast, congruence of perception between respondents and friends was related to a sense of involvement from ones network, but unrelated to respondents' mental health. The advantages of multiple perspectives data in studying the social ties of people with psychiatric disability are discussed.

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PubMed1992

The power of a place: opening the college classroom to people with serious mental illness.

Presented the structure and implementation of a university-based practicum course on social relationships for people with serious mental illness and college undergraduates. Grounded in an ecological view of social settings, cooperative learning models of education and mutual help principles, the practicum was designed to create a collaborative classroom setting where undergraduates and people with serious mental illness could both develop and enhance their own interpersonal skills and social network ties. The practicum demonstrates how a university can use its resources to help address community needs while simultaneously enhancing its mission of teaching and research. The role of social context in creating collaborative relationships among participants and the use of the university as a community resource are discussed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1991

Peer support telephone dyads for elderly women: the wrong intervention or the wrong research?

Reaction to the intervention paper by Heller et al. (1990) places their work into a larger framework of social support interventions to make explicit the assumptions underlying the project. It is suggested that the intervention was constrained by the experimental design of the evaluation research and overlooked important features in the process of relationship development among dyads. In developing interventions designed to impact personal relationships, it is recommended that community psychologists (a) consider the context in which personal relationships are formed, maintained, and terminated; (b) use the power of their scientific inquiry to create, strengthen, or legitimize new social roles for people who are disenfranchised; (c) promote the use and legitimacy of research methods that compliment rather than dictate the nature of interventions.

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