An organizational typology for
self-help groups. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 769-788.
Alcohol Concern spokesman Jim Asbury said: "The aim of our project is to establish a collection of new
self-help groups, in which individuals from the local community can offer guidance, understanding and mutual support to others."
Women in
self-help groups embark on a period of reflection and become more aware of the social, cultural and personal mechanisms that turned them into victims and kept them in that role for so many years, with the all-too-familiar consequences: low self-esteem; guilt; shame; loss of personal judgment; isolation; fear; self-doubt; denial of their own needs, even their bodies; inability to carry out their own projects.
This is familiar territory for sociological research; examination of the connections between people's experience of health problems, their use of self-care and
self-help groups and their use of formal health care.
The study examined
self-help groups in four major cities and on nationwide online discussion groups.
But that provokes the question: If every alcohol treatment clinic has access to
self-help groups, why doesn't every hospital have a self-help unit?
Self-help groups have the potential to be beneficial to social workers' clients.
The rationale for facilitating patients' involvement in 12-step
self-help groups stems primarily from recent AA outcome research and from developments in the management and organization of health care in the United States.
Treatment, which lasted about 3 weeks, stressed overcoming denial of addiction, fostering a sense of belonging to
self-help groups, and thinking of addiction as a disease.
It has become the largest funder of
self-help groups for the poor in the nation.
This paper concerns the history and structure of the so-called
self-help groups of alcoholics in Austria.
members to claim a privilege as an extension of either the priest-penitent or the spousal privileges.(4) Instead, he held that New York law does not extend a testimonial privilege to
self-help groups. Although the A.A.