The Self-Help Sourcebook
Author: Edward J. Madara
Publisher: Saint Clare's Health Services
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780963432278
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Author: Edward J. Madara
Publisher: Saint Clare's Health Services
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780963432278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara J. White
Publisher: Amer Self-Help Group Clearing house
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781930683006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saint Clare's Community Mental Health Center
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 117
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara J. White
Publisher: Self Help Clearing House
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 222
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Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
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Total Pages: 28
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 175
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomasina Borkman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813526300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelf-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.
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780949571045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda Farris Kurtz
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997-02-04
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780803970991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe 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.
Author: Edward J. Madara
Publisher: Saint Clare's Health Services
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780963432278
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