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The Concept of Personal Network in Clinical Practice
Author(s) -
ERICKSON GERALD D.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1975.00487.x
Subject(s) - schema (genetic algorithms) , clinical practice , variety (cybernetics) , personal network , medical practice , sociology , engineering ethics , psychology , knowledge management , public relations , computer science , medicine , political science , medical education , nursing , social science , engineering , artificial intelligence , machine learning
The practice of clinicians in all the helping professions has undergone wide‐ranging change in the past two decades. This change has been uneven and halting, but an essential aspect has been a movement toward a wider arena of practice, including a variety of social network practices. The concept of personal network holds high promise for becoming a major unifying framework in clinical practice: as an analytic viewpoint, as a schema for problem location, and as an arena of practice and research. This paper will review the developing strands of network practice, examine some of the forms and characteristics of personal networks, and consider several theoretical and practice issues.