SOC363H1 Chapter : Social Support and Mental Health - Turner & Brown.docx
Document Summary
Social support and mental health: jay turner and robyn lewis brown. Support: supply with necessities; lend assistance or countenance to. keep from failing or giving way, give courage, confidence, or power of endurance to; Social support involves the presence or implication of stable human relationships. Social support, stress and coping are the 3 most import constructs in mental health research. Hammer, makiesky-barrow and gutwirth: social linkages are the basic building blocks of social structure; and their formation, maintenance, and severance are universal and fundamental social processes. Primary group theory: our sense of morale is sustained by membership in primary groups and with it endangers human"s cognitive & emotional state. Lynch: we have a biological basis for our need to form loving human relationships and if not fulfilled, our health is at risk. Spitz: institutionalized infants who don"t get contact with mother have severely affected nervous systems and influences social, emotional and psychological development and functioning.
