Different stories: Self-help groups for alcoholics and illicit drug users - Appel - 1996 () Citation Context ...e when their members assumed paid helping roles. In Germany, for example, recovery activists condemn paid service work on the grounds that it creates status hierarchies within the ...
Alcoholics Anonymousself-help groupsThe aim of this literature review was to scope and present evidence on self-help groups (SHGs) that aim to facilitate recovery from alcohol addiction. A three-fold search strategy was deployed. Within the 25 identified quantitative studies, three themes were ...
supportive setting helps spur recovery. Clients are typically introduced to self-help groups while in rehab, which results in better attendance at meetings post-discharge.Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)was founded in 1935 by New York stockbroker
Self-help groups began to spread in the United States following World War II and proliferated rapidly in the 1960s and 70s. Among these groups are such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous and those for the victims and families of victims of specific diseases, child abuse, suicide, and crime....
来自 repository.cc.sophia.ac.jp 喜欢 0 阅读量: 15 作者: Oka,Tomofumi 摘要: The "New Life" Model of a Japanese Self-Help Group for Alcoholics Oka Tomofumi 上智大学社会福祉研究 (35), 15-34, 2011-03 被引量: 1 年份: 2011
self-help groups groups of people, often in some distress, set up for mutual support and assistance towards renewed psychological health. Self-help groups are part of the general group-therapy movement, and though having a group leader, or facilitator, is not regarded as obligatory it is usual...
Spenders Anonymousis a 12-step group based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous; however, there is no organizational affiliation between the two groups. Spenders Anonymous strives to help people stop spending compulsively, take responsibility for their money, and spread the message of recovery to...
Currently there are approximately 500 different groups in the United States and some of those that are well established have increased their membership. Alcoholics Anonymous, for example, has doubled its number of chapters in the past ten years (Buch and Borman, 1982). Health professionals are ...
Many authors trace the history of "modern" self-help groups to the foundation ofAlcoholics Anonymous(AA) in the US in 1935, a group that became active in a field in which existing social and health services did not provide adequate support. More recently, the 1960s civil rights movement gav...
oftheItalianbranchofAlcoholicsAnonymous(AA).Thisis becausetheself-helpapproachisoriginallystemmedfromAAandissignificantlyortotallyinspiredbyit . Keywords:empowerment,self-help/mutualaid,alcohol,qualityoflife,healthpromotion Self-help/MutualAidandEmpowerment InItaly,AlcoholicsAnonymous(AA)‘wasfoundedinRomewhentwo...