On Social Support in a System of Interpersonal Relations Between Normal Subjects and Youths with Slowly Progressive Schizophrenia

Abstract

In recent years there has been considerable increase in the number of social-psychological studies in psychiatry in connection with the tasks of rehabilitating the mentally ill (Kabanov, 1981). A considerable number of earlier works have also been devoted to the system of relations of the mentally ill with their social environment (e.g., Vaize, Volovik, & Kabanov, 1981). Foreign studies have accumulated numerous data on the ruinous consequences of social maladjustment of the mentally ill, and attempts have accordingly been undertaken to identify and describe the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of social interactions that contribute to the preservation of mental health.