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Support Networks in a Caring Community

Research and Policy, Fact and Fiction

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  • © 1985

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  1. J. A. Yoder

    1. Virginia Council of Higher Education, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. Social Support Networks: A Literature Study

      • Sisca Lentjes, J. M. L. Jonker
      Pages 5-38

  4. Selected Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Suitable Cases for Treatment? Couples Seeking Help for Marital Difficulties

      • Julia Brannen
      Pages 125-137

    3. The Social Services as “Network Organizers”

      • Cecilia Henning
      Pages 139-153

    4. Supporting the Informal Carers

      • J. Hodder
      Pages 155-161

    5. Conflicts as Property: Fear of Crime, Criminal Justice and the Caring Community

      • L. H. C. Hulsman
      Pages 163-169

    6. Problems and Possibilities in Informal Care for the Impaired Elderly

      • C. P. M. Knipscheer
      Pages 171-181

    7. Community Care Capacity: A View from Israel

      • Howard Litwin
      Pages 183-190

    8. Mediating Structures and the Linkage of Social Care and Individual Responsibility (1)

      • Jan Nauta, Theo Schuyt
      Pages 191-199

    9. The Eighth Decade: Family Structure and Support Networks in the Community

      • Alan Tennant, Michael Bayley
      Pages 201-214

    10. Supportive Relationships and Loneliness: Suggestions for the Improvement of Support Networks as Guidelines for Research and Policy

      • Theo Van Tilburg
      Pages 215-225

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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About this book

The historic Binnenhof, seat of the Dutch government in The Hague, provided the setting (January 1985) for a conference in which participants from eleven countries met to consider the theme: Support networks in a caring community: research and policy, fact and fiction. At the outset, conference leadership - provided by Professors J.M.L. Jonker (The Netherlands) and R.A.B. Leaper (United Kingdom) urged the conferees not to allow their enthusiasm for informal support networks to combine with the pervasive awareness of the failures of welfare states into a simplistic stance of advocacy, with a consequent appeal to politicians to direct state funds accordingly. Legitimate criticisms of the responses of welfare states to the needs of citizens were to be seen as the context for discussion, not the substance of conference deliberations. More specifically, if it is now apparent to many people that governmental assistance of individuals with social needs can lead to an undesirable dependency on the part of increasingly passive citizens, that awareness does not lend logical support to an ideological position that governmental expenditures are pern~c~ous per se - to be replaced as rapidly as possible by a return to reliance on self, family, friends and associations that are developed voluntarily and financed by those who are sufficiently interested.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Council of Higher Education, USA

    J. A. Yoder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Support Networks in a Caring Community

  • Book Subtitle: Research and Policy, Fact and Fiction

  • Editors: J. A. Yoder

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5141-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3200-5Due: 31 August 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8774-2Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5141-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 245

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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