Social Support Systems: Contributors to the Incidence of Schizophrenia?
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 61 (3), 875-878
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.61.3.875
Abstract
The present article considers the recent increase in community-based support systems for psychiatric patients. Although these systems appear to offer some short-term benefits, the long-term consequences have received little attention. Here, the case is examined for such systems actually facilitating the reproductive rates and hence general incidence of genetically transmitted disorders such as schizophrenia.Keywords
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