Self‐help groups: The members' perspectives | Zendy

Knight Bob | Zendy; Wollert Richard W. | Zendy; Levy Leon H. | Zendy; Frame Cynthia L. | Zendy; Padgett Valerie P. | Zendy

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Self‐help groups: The members' perspectives

Author(s) -

Knight Bob,

Wollert Richard W.,

Levy Leon H.,

Frame Cynthia L.,

Padgett Valerie P.

Publication year - 1980

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/bf00892281

Subject(s) - health psychology , public health , psychology , social psychology , medicine , nursing

The emergence of self-help groups as an important source of help-giving for persons with psychological problems has occurred without a systematic attempt to tap an important source of information about this phenomenon: the members themselves. Eighty members of nine self-help groups were surveyed. The results of this study suggest that self-help groups serve a different population than do professional therapists, that the help-giving processes are mainly supportive in nature, and that an optimistic attitude toward increased collaboration between professional care-givers and self-help groups is justified. Questions for further research are discussed.

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