“…Clinical work with a social network has been described in connection with many kinds of psychiatric and social problems: e.g. schizophrenia, borderline (Kliman, & Trimble, 1983;Morin, & Seidman, 1986;Schoenfeld, Halevy, van der Velden, & Ruhf, 1986), behaviour problems in school children (Svedhem, 1994), criminal and acting-out behaviour in teenagers and teenage gangs, children in single-parent families (Samuelsson, 1995), work with multiproblem families in crisis (Klefbeck, Bergerhed, Forsberg, Hultkrantz-Jeppson, & Marklund, 1987) and family therapeutic work with larger systems (Imber-Black, 1988). According to social ecology theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979), the influence of the environment operates not only through the family, but also directly influences the child from an early age.…”