How Does Self Help Work?.

Riessman, Frank

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Publication Date: 1976

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How Does Self Help Work?

Riessman, Frank

Social Policy, 7, 2, 41-45, Sep-Oct 76

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, Self Help Programs, Success, Therapeutic Environment, Values

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