The results suggest that epilepsy has little or no influence on problem behaviours for young people with ID. Our attempt to understand the pathogenesis of behaviour problems in persons with ID may be better directed towards understanding genetic mechanisms than epilepsy pathologies.

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Social networks are viable foci for therapeutic interventions. A social network therapy program for clients with schizophrenia was developed by a community-based mental health agency. This paper presents four of the most common clinical issues encountered and illustrates each with a case example.

The social networks o f 24 individuals with schizophrenia were examined after 1 year o f social network therapy. The participants were rated on symptoms and network variables prior to treatment and 1 year later. Successful treatment was defined using a standardized method designed to classify subjects into groups on the basis o f chart review by expert clinicians;12 o f the 25 participants were judged to have improved clinically. Social network was measured using Pattison and colleagues' Psychosocial Network Inventory (Pattison, DeFrancisco, Wood, Frazier, & Crowder, 1975). Symptoms were assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) (Overall & Gorham, 1962) and the Social Functioning Schedule (SFS) (Remington & Tyrer, 1979). An analysis o f variance with two factors (time and group) was carried out. The improved group showed significant improvement in the social network with an increase in the num This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal ber o f reciprocal relationships (p<.05) and confidants (p<.05) when com pared to the unimproved group. They also showed improvement on the S-D (psychotic symptom) subscale o f the BPRS (p<.001) and the A-D (Anxiety and Depression) subscale o f the BPRS (p<.001).