TY - JOUR AU1 - Long, Ann AB - Editors: Barbara Sarason and Steve Duck Wiley, Chichester 2001, £19.99 ISBN: 0‐471‐49161‐6 (pbk) Relationships play an important role in promoting and maintaining people’s health and well‐being. Mental health nurses have always considered their meaningfulness throughout life, whether good or bad, and how they linger and walk about in our minds like ghosts even after death. This book has been edited by two celebrated authors in the field of academia generally and the field of human relationships specifically. The fundamental importance of relationships and the impact they have on the development and maintenance of social support through the channel of relationships at a wider level have become leading areas of research in the past quarter of a century. The book explores the enigma of human relationships’ research and synthesizes scholarly debates on the topic and, more important, it discusses the application of findings to the fields of clinical and community psychology. This is a relatively new approach to the area of human relationships as it provides richness, breadth and depth to previous writing on the topic. Woven within the tapestry of the writing is a thread that argues vehemently for the use of human relationship strategies that could benefit TI - Personal relationships: implications for clinical and community psychology JF - Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing DO - 10.1046/j.1351-0126.2001.00453.x DA - 2001-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/personal-relationships-implications-for-clinical-and-community-21rtfRPbm0 SP - 551 EP - 552 VL - 8 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -