Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups
Subtitle: International and Multicultural Perspectives (Prevention in Human Services) (Prevention in Human Services)
Contributors: Thomasina Borkman (Editor); Benjamin Gidron (Editor); Francine Lavoie (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781560247166
Subjects: Self-Help & Practical Interests; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; General; Self-Help; Psychology; Cross-cultural studies; Personal Growth - Happiness; Self-help groups
First sentence: The 1970s and 1980s saw a major expansion in the scientific attention paid to the self-help phenomenon globally, and apparently a significant rise in the occurrence of self-help throughout the world.