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Social Policy

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Borman, Leonard D.	1
Sidel, Ruth	1
Sidel, Victor W.	1

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Self-Help and the Professional

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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

Beyond Coping

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Sidel, Victor W.; Sidel, Ruth – Social Policy, 1976

Notes that while self-help groups are an important and encouraging development, they are more often a response to symptoms than to the underlying problems. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Role, Group Dynamics, Human Resources