Title: The strength in us : self-help groups in the modern world /
Authors: Katz, Alfred H. 1916-; Bender, Eugene I.
Publisher: New Viewpoints,
Year: 1976
Subjects: Self-help groups.; Self-Help Groups
Contents: Why self-help? -- Self-help and mutual aid in history -- Self-help as a social movement -- Toward a classification of self-help groups -- Therapeutic type : Recovery, Inc. / Donald T. Lee -- Social advocacy type : the National Welfare Rights Organization / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- "Rock-bottom haven" type : X-Kalay / David M. Berner and Lewis Molina -- Some mixed forms of self-help groups -- Participation, patterns and benefits of membership in a self-help organization of stutterers / Thomasina Borkman -- Organizational affiliation and powerlessness : a case study of the welfare poor / Helene Levens -- Intra-group dynamics in self-help organizations -- Group structures and formats in self-help organizations -- Spontaneous or natural support systems / Gerald Caplan -- Operation bootstrap / Lou Smith -- Power and collective self-help / Warren C. Haggstrom -- Consciousness-raising : self-help in the Women's Movement / Janet Norman -- Patients 75 ; professionals 0 : the lodge program in community rehabilitation / David H. Sanders -- Camphill villages / Sarah Black -- European and North American self-help movements : some contrasts / Gustave A. de Cocq -- Poland's self-help rehabilitation program / Alfred H. Katz -- Self-help and mutual aid in the People's Republic of China / Ruth V. Sidel -- Self-help groups and the organized society : a stocktaking and excursus.