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Marieskind, Helen I. – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that today, a gynecological self help group tries to make easily understood information about womens' bodies, bodily processes, and related health care available to all women. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Clinics, Females, Feminism, Health Education

Riessman, Frank – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that one of the most significant characteristics of mutual aid groups is the fact that they are empowering and thus delineating. They enable members to feel and use their strengths, their own power, to have control over their own lives. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Individual Power, Program Attitudes, Program Descriptions

Petrillo, Robert – Social Policy, 1976
Rap Room is a peer counseling service which combines self-help, peer help, and professional guidance to develop supportive relations in the midst of a generally depersonalizing and growth-stifling institution. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Objectives, Peer Counseling, Peer Groups, Schools

Levin, Lowell – Social Policy, 1976
Discusses the following: 1. Why self care is of such great interest today; 2. What initiatives have been taken thus far; 3. Issues related to self-care that have aroused considerable interest, and, 4. Research needs in self-care. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Health, International Organizations, International Programs

Banks, Erik – Social Policy, 1997
Argues that small-group mutual aid organizations are successful voluntary associations that attract members even in our individualistic and commodity-driven culture because they provide valuable collective benefits that can only be enjoyed in common. Small groups as a source of social capital have implications for the study of helping…
Descriptors: Community Action, Group Membership, Groups, Helping Relationship

Galper, Miriam; Washburne, Carolyn Knott – Social Policy, 1976
Discusses what feminists have been trying to accomplish through the many womens programs that have sprouted, flourished, and sometimes faded in recent years and focuses on Women in Transition, Inc., a program that failed. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Failure, Feminism, Financial Problems

Social Policy, 1976
This field work examines womens' participation in 50 alternative self-help support systems covering 10 states and notes that variety is the outstanding characteristic of these services. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Females, Mental Health Programs, Organizational Climate, Participant Characteristics

Gartner, Alan – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that the single most important common denominator of the various types of self-help groups examined may be that the role of the person who has already lived through the experience is critical for helping others. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Group Dynamics, Mental Health

Perlman, Janice E. – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests a taxonomy of the grass roots movement and gives a general descriptive over view of the 60 groups studied with respect to origin, constituency, size, funding, issues, and ideology. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Group Norms, Group Structure, Leadership

Kirshbaum, Hal R.; And Others – Social Policy, 1976
Reports on the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California, one of the most remarkable and probably the largest self-help enterprise of disabled people to have surfaced in the past 25 years. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Support, Health Needs, Individual Power, Models

Hess, Beth B. – Social Policy, 1976
Explores the concepts of support systems and self help and presents a paradigm for relating the two. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Support, Conceptual Schemes, Geriatrics, Gerontology

Boxill, Nancy A.; Beverly, Creigs C. – Social Policy, 1986
Outlines data on the socioeconomic, health, and educational status of Blacks in Georgia. Calls for the maximization of internal resources for internal development, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. (GC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Community, Black Family, Black Youth

Borman, Leonard D. – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that one of the reasons why many of the older self-help organizations rejected professional help may be that the help that was offered was of the more authoritarian variety. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Policy Formation, Professional Personnel, Professional Services

Gordon, James S. – Social Policy, 1976
Outlines the evaluation of a suburban hotline. Among its foci is the interrelationship between the growth and development of a core group of youthful phone aides and that of the organization as a whole. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Hotlines (Public), Participation, Program Descriptions, Program Development

Keyserling, Mary Dublin – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that no issue on the domestic scene has greater importance for women than full employment because the potential gains for women are immense when the economy moves into high gear and there are jobs enough for all who are willing able and seeking work. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Status, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
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