The Self-Help Group Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930683006 ISBN 13: 9781930683006

Publisher: Amer Self-Help Group Clearing house, 2002

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Self-Help Group Clearing house
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930683006
• ISBN 13: 9781930683006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: White Barbara J., Madara Edward J.