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  • 10 - A test of the social support hypothesis

  • from PART III - LESSONS FROM INTERVENTION STUDIES
  • 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 213-238

  • Summary

    The social network of any individual may be held to comprise those with whom the person has regular face-to-face interaction and some degree of commitment. Social support may be seen simply as the provision of help and advice by other people. Henderson has listed three separate hypotheses about the effects of social support. First, that social support has a direct and independent effect in its own right on mental and/or physical health, whether or not adversity is also present; second, that it provides a buffer or cushioning effect against stress; third, that in persons who have already developed affective or neurotic symptoms, it has a therapeutic effect shortening the episode and reducing symptoms. Clinical work with patients in both child and adult psychiatry is a constant reminder of how the interactions between parents and children influence, for better and for worse, psychosocial development in the children.