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Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support by Thomasina Borkman Pdf
Social science research on self-help/mutual aid groups and organizations from 1960 on is reviewed. Voluntary peer-run mutually supportive groups’ diversity illustrated through Alcoholics Anonymous, mental health groups and others. Socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Borkman’s autoethnographic narrative highlights her participation.
Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid by Thomasina Borkman Pdf
Self-help groups have encountered fierce criticism as places where individuals join to share personal problems and to engage in therapeutic intervention without the aid of skilled professionals. These groups have flourished since the 1970s and continue to serve more people than professional therapy. Yet these groups have been criticized as fostering a culture of whiners and victims, and not using professional help as needed. Thomasina Jo Borkman debunks this commonly held assessment, and also examines the reasons for these groups' enduring popularity since the 1960s--more people attend these meetings (word?) than see professional therapists. What accounts for their success and popularity? Understanding Self-Help / Mutual-Aid Groups is the first book to describe three stages of individual and group evolution that is part of this organization's very structure; it also reconceptualizes participants' interactions with professionals. The group as a whole, Borkman posits, draws on the life experiences of its membes to foster nurturing, support, and transformation through a "circle of sharing." Groups create more positive and less stigmatizing "meaning perspectives" of the members' problems than is available from professionals or lay folk culture.
Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups by Francine Lavoie,Benjamin Gidron Pdf
Here is new information on the development of international and intercultural research on self-help groups. This book reflects the many developments which have occurred in the field over the past decade, emphasizing empirical research. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups provides specific research findings and honed concepts to help health professionals learn more about self-help groups and work effectively with such groups. More countries and ethnic groups are now involved in the self-help movement, and this volume increases knowledge of how different cultures react to and participate in self-help mutual aid and how self-help groups can be adapted to fit different racial or ethnic populations. Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups explores the definition of self-help, the centrality of culture as a major factor explaining variability in self-help, the development of appropriate methodological tools, and the role and involvement of professionals. It brings together different traditions of research for the study of cross- and intercultural and inter- and intraorganizational aspects of self-help groups. Contributors who represent various disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social work, and nursing, discuss: a paradigm for research in self-help the development of self-help groups in Japan, Hong Kong, and the former East Germany the participation of blacks in Alcoholics Anonymous the participation of Mexican Americans in groups for parents of the mentally ill relationships between self-help groups and health professionals predictors of burnout in self-help group leaders characteristics of effective groups ways individuals change their world view through self-help participation Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups is an informative and helpful resource for self-help researchers and teachers, students, and professionals who want to be more effective in their work with self-help groups across cultural and national lines.
Self-help/mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support by Thomasina Borkman,Carol Munn-Giddings,Melanie Boyce Pdf
"Thomasina Borkman reviews English-language social science research on North American self-help/mutual aid groups (SHGs) and organizations and some from industrialized countries. SHGs, known by many names, are voluntary, member-run groups of peers who share a common issue, utilize lived experience, and practice mutual aid. Borkman's autoethnographic approach highlights her international SHG participation. Despite initial common values and practices in the 1960s and on, Alcoholics Anonymous, the mental health SHGs, and other SHGs evolved in the US as three separate social movements that became institutionalized by 2000; their history, characteristics, achievements and supportive infrastructure are summarized. British contributors Munn-Giddings and Boyce show in European countries how socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Research has shifted from SHGs to peer support since 2000"--
Jean-Marie Romeder,Canadian Council on Social Development
Author : Jean-Marie Romeder,Canadian Council on Social Development Publisher : Unknown Page : 164 pages File Size : 41,6 Mb Release : 1990 Category : Self-care, Health ISBN : UOM:39015047454817
The Self-help Way by Jean-Marie Romeder,Canadian Council on Social Development Pdf
This publication offers a summary of current knowledge in the field of self-help/mutual aid. It proposes a new definition of self-help groups, outlines a theory of motivation for mutual aid that gives readers a better understanding of the forces and dynamics at work in the mutual aid practised in self-help groups. It proposes a model for personal health, examines the sources of reluctance many people have to self-help groups and the way one can overcome them. It also contains an overview of numerous studies on self-help groups, and of the activities that have lent support to the self-help movement. Finally, it presents the similarities and differences between the activities of members of self-help groups and those of professionals.
Author : Barbara J. White Publisher : Self Help Clearing House Page : 222 pages File Size : 53,8 Mb Release : 1992 Category : Social Science ISBN : OCLC:609440221
Self-Help and Support Groups by Linda Farris Kurtz Pdf
She provides practical advice and direction to professionals for working with these groups while analyzing self-help/support organizations on three different levels - in terms of the groups themselves, the groups' members, and the practitioner's interaction with the groups. In addition, this comprehensive volume discusses the most prominent representative associations as examples of different types of groups, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Inc., National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and the Alzheimer's Association. It also examines the rise of telephone and on-line self-help, considering the advantages, and disadvantages of this style of group interaction.
Helping People to Help Themselves by Leonard D. Borman Pdf
A useful book in which the authors describe and advocate self-help and mutual aid groups in the field of human services. Topics include support groups for bereaved parents, sexually abusive families, women who have undergone Caesarean childbirth, and former mental patients.
Author : Jeffrey D. Roth,William L. White,John F. Kelly Publisher : Routledge Page : 272 pages File Size : 49,5 Mb Release : 2016-04-08 Category : Medical ISBN : 9781134927807
Broadening the Base of Addiction Mutual Support Groups by Jeffrey D. Roth,William L. White,John F. Kelly Pdf
Mutual-help groups have proliferated, diversified and adapted to emerging substance-related trends over the past 75 years, and have been the focus of rigorous research for the past 30 years. This book reviews the history of mutual support groups for addiction that have arisen as adjuncts or alternatives to Twelve Step Programs, including secular mutual support groups like Secular Organization for Sobriety, Smart Recovery and Women for Sobriety, and faith-based mutual support groups like Celebrate Recovery. It also considers the mutual support groups attended by families and friends of addicts. These mutual support groups are examined in terms of their histories, theoretical underpinnings and intended communities. The structures common in mutual support groups have influenced the rise of a new recovery advocacy movement and new recovery community institutions such as recovery ministries, recovery community centers, sober cafes, sober sports clubs, and recovery-focused projects in music, theatre and the arts. This volume explores how collectively, these trends reflect the cultural and political awakening of people in recovery and growing recognition and celebration of multiple pathways of long-term addiction recovery. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.
Helping You Helps Me by Hector Balthazar,Karen Hill,Canadian Council on Social Development Pdf
Guide book for people who want to start new self-help groups, or who want to improve the way their own group works. Practical advicefor starting and maintaining a self-help group.
Author : Thomas J. Powell Publisher : N A S W Press Page : 392 pages File Size : 49,8 Mb Release : 1987 Category : Psychology ISBN : UOM:39015050331696
