Review of FAMILY NETWORKS

Reviews the book, Family Networks by Ross V. Speck and Carolyn L. Attneave (see record 1974-01685-000). Building on R. D. Laing's theories about the social and familial forces that determine our lives, Dr. Attneave has joined Dr. Speck in developing a well-constructed and adequately field-tested method of catalyzing the concern of the social network that surrounds the identified patient through a six-step process that has proven effective by a well-trained team of intervenors: Retribalization, Polarization, Mobilization, Depression, Breakthrough, and Exhaustion and Elation. The authors point out other uses of the method in teaching social network theory intervention, in professional association problems, and understanding institutional network functioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)