Publisher's Synopsis
After many years in hospital, how do people with long-term mental illness adjust to a new life in different community settings? Social network analysis and case studies are used to map the structure of peopleÆs social relationships, the results indicating that interview based approaches, widely used in this field, give only a partial representation of important social contacts in peopleÆs lives. Relationships between properties of peopleÆs social networks and measures of social integration are tested. How these relationships are mediated by care practices in different community housing schemes is examined. The findings are reviewed in the light of national policy expectations for community care and in relation to the wider theoretical and practice literature.
