The Self-Help Group Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups
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The 7th edition of this guide provides information on over one thousand national, international, model, and online “self-help” support groups for most any illness, disability, addiction, bereavement situation, parenting concern, caregiver, abuse, or other stressful life situation. Includes chapters on: how to start a community mutual aid self-help group; finding and forming online groups; local self-help group clearinghouses worldwide; understanding the value and dynamics of groups; and reviews of empirical research studies done of self-help groups. Has both a keyword index, and a separate group name index. Foreword by the late Dr. Alfred Katz, U.C.L.A. departments of Medicine, Public Health, and Social Welfare. Introduction by Dr. Phyllis Silverman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard University…. More >>
The Self-Help Group Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups
I’ve owned every edition of this sourcebook since it was first published. It has grown larger and larger over the years as new groups have formed in real space and on the Internet. I wouldn’t be without this book because it addresses almost every concern known. In addition to the basic information on groups and how to reach them, the sourcebook provides some useful definitions of terms, explanation of the concept of self help and much more. There is a nice overview of effectiveness research on such groups as well. As an educator I find that students are really interested in knowing about this book and they use it to help with some of their research.