DATE: June 26, 1987
EDITION: Volume II, Number 2
David Trimble, Editor
Jodie Kliman, Associate Editor
CONTENTS
---Enclosed with this issue is Gunnar Forsberg's translation of the Table of Contents and Preface to NATVERKSTERAPI. I will be seeking to find a publisher willing to underwrite the translation of this work into English for publication. I would appreciate any reader's help in sharing your connections with publishers.
---I have submitted the enclosed proposal to Ortho for their San Francisco meeting, March 27-31. The faculty listed are those who were there for the last meeting in Chicago. Ortho has been flexible about changing/adding faculty; if you're on the list and won't be there or if you're not on the list and want to be, please let me know.
---Julia Halevy announces that AAMFT has accepted her proposal for a day-long institute at their Chicago meeting on October 29. Faculty are Carolyn Attneave, Elizabeth Hemley van der Velden, Kathryn Kaminsky, Larry Ruhf, and David Trimble. AAMFT is not flexible about faculty size; Julia regrets that she is not permitted to add any faculty to her institute.
---Please note my error in citing the Network Consultants' follow-up study; it was not published in FAMILY PROCESS. The correct reference is as follows: Trimble, D.W., Kliman, J., Villapiano, A., Beckett, W. (1984). Follow-up of a full-scale network assembly. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FAMILY THERAPY, 6, 102-113.
---Anne Coppard has changed her address. Here's the new one.
Anne E. Coppard, O.T.(C.)
Assistant Director of Mental Health,
Coordinator, Social Network Therapy
Community Occupational Therapy Associates
3101 Bathurst Street, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M6A 2A6
(416) 785-8797
---No other news; this column depends on your correspondence. I am eagerly awaiting news from Gunnar Forsberg about his group's final report on their child welfare project in the Stockholm area.
Julia Halevy responded by telephone to my comments on the FAMILY PROCESS article; she basically agrees, noting the irony that theory underlying network intervention involves assumptions contrary to the humanistic values which inform our practice.
---Dozier, M., Harris, M., and Bergman, H.(1987). Social network density and rehospitalization among young adult patients. HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY, 38, 61-65. A study of a heterogeneous group of 30 psychiatric patients under the age of 40, examining the relationship between networks and rehospitalization. Network size and patient diagnosis did not predict number of days in the hospital. There was a curvilinear relationship between network density and days of hospitalization; that is, too sparse or too dense a network predicts hospitalization. Their explanation for this finding was not very substantial; the finding certainly makes intuitive sense and is consistent with what we know about networks and social support. Too sparse a network provides too little support. Too dense a network involves pathogenic stresses, as described in Pattison's early study of networks and psychopathology, and in the expressed emotion (EE) literature.
---I need help from those of you with connections to publishers, to find a sponsor for the translation and publication of NATVERKSTERAPI.
---Caring for a baby and in private practice, I am not in a position to keep up with the literature. Please send in your contributions to the REVIEWS section.
---Please send in your opinions and news.
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