The Purpose
As of 2025, the project to rewrite ‘Practical Friendship’ as a pure resource book covering friendship theory, both individual as well as the network and social environment has been underway. The purpose is to build a process theory from which friendship based assessments and interventions for social connection can be developed.
This will happen in stages, with chapters bit by bit getting published, edited, updated, rewritten etc.
The goal is not anymore a final printed edition, but a not too out of date resource in PDF to be browsed and used for reference rather than read cover to cover.
Thus in addition to this website, there are now two new resources.
Zenodo repository
Zenodo is an open platform to publish documents. A DOI is issued, and it is referenceable. At this repository stable versions of section parts or chapters will be published.
Special Focus here for 2025 are the topics Youth and Older Age
Special focus here for 2026 at the topics Social Health, Assessments and Interventions
Special focus in 2027 will be a review of networks, and a rewrite of the chapters of organisations, communities and third places.
https://zenodo.org/communities/practicalfriendship
OSF Repository
The second component is an OSF repository for Data on Assessments, Interventions, and other items, as well as draft chapters still under rewriting, reviewing conditions which are ready for comments.
The Book
The Book from 2021 mostly useful for the treatise on individual traits (i.e. the personality traits, relationship attitudes, activities and the best practices for individual friendship maintenance) is still available as PDF for free online and as book in various outlets.
Please go here