The interpretation of various measures of autonomy depends on the context – women who take decisions alone in a context where this is unusual, "might be relatively isolated, unsupported individuals, and not autonomous agents" [ 42].
This suggests that one of the key advantages of using peer supporters throughout individual interventions, and in particular treatment programmes for bipolar disorder, is that they help individuals maintain trust in mental health services at crucial times where unsupported individuals may begin to disengage.
Unsupported individuals who are isolated from meaningful social networks are not uncommon, especially amongst older people where relational networks are unstable and may diminish towards the end of life [ 5] but most patients have some kind of mutually supportive social relationships.
"The allegations against Mr. Salyer are unsupported except by individuals who have pled guilty and who are seeking a personal benefit in the sentencing process," Mr. Segal said.
No longer could OMH throw these individuals unsupported into the community, they would have to see if a treatment plan is needed and if so, enforce it.
Empowering girls to fight their individual battles, unsupported, can only take us so far.
We claim that this focus on individuals is unsupported by the evidence, including the laboratory games agreeing with religious beliefs that cooperation provides for the best social good.
Does this mean that individuals who feel unsupported are more likely to be bullied or does it reflect on the overall culture of that medical college?
If not, are we guilty of allowing technological developments in predictive testing and commercial pressures overtake the ability of services to react appropriately, leaving individuals with genetic concerns unsupported?
Once the matrix has been disrupted, crack propagation is disrupted and the individual fibres that are now unsupported by the matrix rupture in shear and fibre pullout occurs.
