Understanding the self-help organization : frameworks and findings /: frameworks and findings. (1994)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas J. Powell.
• Other Names: Powell, Thomas J
• Contents: Preface - Thomas J Powell; Some Comments on Knowledge Development in the Self-Help Field; PART ONE: POLICY FRAMEWORKS AND FINDINGS; Self-Help Research and Policy Issues - Thomas J Powell; Agency Involvement with Self-Help Programs and Quality of Mental Health Services for Older Adults - Thomas J Powell; PART TWO: MAJORITY AND MINORITY PARTICIPATION FRAMEWORKS AND FINDINGS; Problems in Assessing Prevalence and Membership Characteristics of Self-Help Group Participants - Morton A Lieberman and Lonnie R Snowden; African-American Participation in Self-Help Groups - Lonnie R Snowden and Morton A Lieberman; Researching Mutual Help Group Participation in a Segregated Society - Keith Humphreys and Michael D Woods; Individual, Group Context, and Individual-Group Fit Predictors of Self-Help Group Attendance - Douglas A Luke, Linda Roberts and Julian Rappaport; PART THREE: EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS; Narrative Studies, Personal Studies, and Identity Transformation in the Mutual Help Context - Julian Rappaport; Moving Beyond the Individual Level of Analysis in Mutual-Help Group Research - Kenneth I Maton; An Ecological Paradigm; Consumer Roles in Self-Help Group Research - Caroline L Kaufmann; The Naturalistic Paradigm as an Approach to Research with Mutual Help Groups - Mellen Kennedy, Keith Humphreys and Thomasina Borkman; PART FOUR: FINDINGS; The Self-Help Clearinghouse - Gregory Meissen and Mary Warren; A New Development in Action Research for Community Psychology; Self-Help for Sickle Cell Disease in African American Communities - Kermit B Nash and Kathryn D Kramer; Identifying the Experiential Knowledge Developed within a Self-Help Group - Marsha A Schubert and Thomasina Borkman; Twelve Steps for Everyone? Lesbians in Al-Anon - Christine L Saulnier; Understanding Self-Help Groups - J B Kingree and R Barry Ruback; Self-Help Groups for Families with Mental Illness or Alcoholism - Linda Farris Kurtz;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1994
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: 361.4; Self-help groups; Self-Help Groups; Groupes d'entraide; Self-help groups; Selbsthilfegruppe; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452255279
• Related ISBNs: 145225527X
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