Understanding Support Networks and Community Care

Part 1 Background: support network variation; the network assessment project. Part 2 Managing change: working with community care teams; the political and organizational context. Part 3 Support networks, teams and users: network distributions; presenting problems. Part 4 Support networks and social work practice: the consequences of variation in network type for practice; using network type in practice; summary and conclusions - network assessment and practice. Appendices: the PANT instrument; PANT coding frame; distributions of network defining questions.