[Markers of the social network as criteria in the follow-up of patients of a therapeutic community].

The characteristics of the social networks and of the post-therapeutic process of 47 patients of a therapeutic community were studied four years after release. Groups of successful and unsuccessful patients were defined by the subjective rating of the health status and by a personality inventory. Depending on the criterias of success, we found significant differences in the characteristics of the posttherapeutic process. To some extent the groups differed also in the quality of the social relationships, the number of confidants and in the size of those parts of the social networks, which were build up by the family of the patients.