Caregiving Social Networks. Are they adequate to support patients with anxiety disorders and how are they established?

Anxiety disorders have a great impact in a patient´s environment. Organizing this environment through Caregiving Social Networks (CSNs) offers an important assistance to a patient´s treatment and improves the quality of life of its members. The medical practice of anxiety disorders´ treatment is presented, based on which the CSN is established. An abstract structure and indicative roles for the CSN´s players are further illustrated which may vary depending on several factors. Finally, a case scenario is provided, showing that a CSN is adequate to support patients with anxiety disorders. CSNs offer important advantages not only to the treatment itself, but both to the patients and their environment.