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Self‐help groups viewed by mental health professionals: A survey and comments

Author(s) -

Levy Leon H.

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

american journal of community psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1573-2770

pISSN - 0091-0562

DOI - 10.1007/bf00885522

Subject(s) - health psychology , mental health , public health , psychology , applied psychology , nursing , medicine , psychiatry

This paper presents a summary of a national survey of the utilization and evaluation of self-help groups by outpatient mental health facilities making and receiving referrals from self-help groups. Evaluations of self-help groups' effectiveness tended to be favorable, and respondents generally believed that they could play an important role in a mental health delivery system. Only 30.7%, however, believed that the probability was high that their agencies would be interested in exploring how their activities might be integrated with those of self-help groups.

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