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  • 3 - A developmental perspective on social support networks

  • from PART I - CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
  • Edited by T. S. Brugha, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Social Support and Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    31 October 2009
    Print publication:
    24 August 1995, pp 61-95

  • Summary

    This chapter considers how supportive relationships develop from birth through to the adult years, and focuses on how experiences in each preceding life stage influence what happens next. It takes a life-span developmental perspective on the study of social support in all its aspects. Due to the importance of both individual predisposition and the external environment for the study of social support, its study presents a special challenge to the mental health researcher and practitioner. This challenge demands that the broad social influences on the development of social life are considered; these include sex, race, culture and class. Attachment theory is the idea that the earliest attachment formed to the mother is the basis of all later intimate relationships. The interest in patterns of attachment and the development of internal working models has led to an interest in the intergenerational transmission of relationship difficulties.