Social networking

Developing a sober social network this can be through 12-step programs or other mutual self-help resources... 

Improving interpersonal functioning and enhancing social supports can be accomplished through 12-step facilitation (TSF), or any other mechanism for developing a sober social network. 

In sum, Wilkinson focuses his explanatory hypothesis on social anxiety. He links social anxiety to shame, depression and violence, and emphasizes that social anxiety has its roots in perceptions of inferiority, unattractiveness, failure or rejection. This helps explain why health is so closely related to lack of friends, low social status, violence and poor early emotional attachment, all of which are associated with similar patterns of raised basal cortisol levels and attenuated responses to experimental stressors. He concludes, therefore, that social anxiety is a very plausible central source of the chronic anxiety that depresses health standards and feeds into the socioeconomic gradient in health. As he puts it, the most important psychosocial determinant of population health is the levels of the various forms of social anxiety in the population, and these in turn are determined by income distribution, early childhood and social networks (Wilkinson, 1999, p. 60). Thus, social anxiety is suggested as an explanation for the links between health and friendship, health and early emotional development, health and the direct psychosocial effects of low social status, the patterning of violence and health in relation to inequality, and health and social cohesion (Wilkinson, 1999, p. 61). 

One area of research related to abuse or neglect has to do with how well a person fits within his or her social environment. One researcher, Marsha Linehan (1993), has talked about how a poor fit with the social environment (viz., not fitting into the family, school life, or other important social networks) may cause psychiatric problems if the poorness of fit causes the person to feel like an outsider or to feel constandy invalidated or put down. Many of my clients have told me that they have not felt part of their families or that they did not fit well into society in general, or have described themselves as black sheep. Abuse and neglect lead to an invalidating environment, but so can mismatches of personalities within families or mismatches of behavioral patterns with social norms. Furthermore, there is evidence that the way emotion is expressed in families can be associated with a poorness of fit that can influence the course of drug problems. 

Ladd, G. (1983). Social networks of popular, average and rejected children in a school setting. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 29, 283—307. 

One of the key choices Singapore Technologies made was to fund three different entities deliberately designed to be different from one another demographically, so that each would tap into a different social network. Each club was allowed to establish its own policies and was not asked to coordinate with the others, to promote diverse approaches. Incubators Work chose to take a minority stake in ventures that would be incubated outside the parent, but it could have selected different policies had it wished. Its purpose was to... 

Linking to, and collaborating with, other firms, which occupy different institutional niches, can help organizations overcome specific competency limitations (Mitchell Singh, 1996). Embedded within institutions are a series of social networks, where sets of actors know one another, are aware of the same kinds of opportunities, have access to the same kinds of resources, and share the same kinds of perceptions (Burt, 1983). Viewed in isolation, one would naturally expect suboptimal creativity, average returns, and limited organic growth to... 

Northern Ghanaians live in communities and in large social networks... 

Brigham, Janet. Dying to Quit Why We Smoke and Haw We Stop. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1998. This accessible account explains the dynamics of tobacco addiction to both medical professionals and general readers. In addition to motivating smokers through a careful explanation of the horrendous health effects of smoking, the author explains how smokers can deal with withdrawal symptoms and how involvement in a social network can help prevent relapses in ex-smokers. 

Blazer, D.G. (1983). Impact of late-life depression on the social network. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 162-166. 

Brugha, T.S. (1984). Personal losses and deficiencies in social networks. Social Psychiatry, 19, 69-74. 

Social networking software for sensitive drug discovery data... 

Hohman M et al (2009) Novel web-based tools combining chemistry informatics, biology and social networks for drug discovery. Drug Disc Today 14 261-270... 

We also can infer that the key social networks connecting scientists active in the genetic toxicology movement were disciplinary and institutional, not pedagogical. Most of the core activists in EMS were formally trained geneticists, and most were connected to government research institutions either as... 

Buy-in. Buy-in needs to come from the general faculty, the administration, AND the student body. If the students do not feel that they can succeed, then whatever plans you put into place are not going to work. So it is imperative to convince students that they are part of the solution. It is this buy-in that seems to have led UMBC to great success. They have clearly shown that if you get buy-in from students and their social network, then all sorts of positive outcomes readily follow. 

Chang, H. 2007. Social networks impact the drugs physicians prescribe according to Stanford Business School research. PharmaLive business wire (March 16). Available at http //www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/mktg nair drugs.shtml. 

Luo, J.S. 2007. Social networking now professionally ready. Primary Psychiatry, 14(2) 21-24. Available at http //www.primarypsychiatry.com/aspx/articledetail.aspx articleid=975. 

Hartle, who had been taught by Freund at Newnham, had spent 2 years at Birmingham as a researcher with Percy Frankland, spouse of Toynbee. Frankland was another champion of women chemists. In fact, it will always be an unanswered question whether it was the men, such as Ramsay and Frankland, who provided many of the links between women at different universities, as they would have had the professional and social network to do so. 

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