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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 GROUPS --- CONDUCT OF LIFE --- EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING --- SELF-HELP --- EDUCATION --- Sociology --- Social Science --- Self-help groups --- Conduct of life --- Experiential learning --- Self-help --- Education

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From Strength to Strength is a practical, new resource for facilitators who arelooking for a positive and optimistic approach and want to build on the strengthsparents bring to their role. It aims to enhance emotional wellbeing in all familymembers, through the sharing of information and the creation of supportivecommunity networks for parents.

Family life education. --- Parenting. --- Parents-- Services for-- Australia. --- Self-help groups. --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Family & Marriage

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A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This pioneering approach, based on restorative justice principles, holds the offender accountable and provides them with care and support to prevent reoffending.

Sex offenders --- Sex offenders --- Self-help groups --- Community psychology --- Community mental health services --- Sex crimes --- Rehabilitation --- Services for --- Prevention.

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The authors reveal the ways in which mutual aid processes help individuals overcome social and emotional trauma in contemporary society by reducing isolation, universalizing individual problems, and mitigating stigma. New chapters in this completely revised and updated third edition illustrate the power of mutual aid processes in dealing with children traumatized by the events of September 11, adult survivors of sexual abuse, parents with developmentally challenged children, people with AIDS in substance recovery, and mentally ill older adults.

Social group work --- Self-help groups --- Life cycle, Human. --- Human life cycle --- Life stages, Human --- Lifecycle, Human --- Human growth --- Life cycles (Biology) --- Maturation (Psychology) --- Developmental psychology