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Understanding the Self-Help Organization
Frameworks and Findings

Edited by:

Thomas J. Powell - University of Oxford, UK

Other Titles in:
Organizational Culture

October 1994 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of self-help organizations, which in the United States alone involve over seven million people, from small local groups to major national organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous.

The focus is on three critical areas: public policy and self-help; participation, particularly by minorities, in self-help; and various frameworks which contribute to understanding self-help. The book concludes with six chapters of major findings and case studies.

Thomas J Powell

Preface

Some Comments on Knowledge Development in the Self-Help Field

PART ONE: POLICY FRAMEWORKS AND FINDINGS

Thomas J Powell

Self-Help Research and Policy Issues

Thomas J Powell

Agency Involvement with Self-Help Programs and Quality of Mental Health Services for Older Adults

PART TWO: MAJORITY AND MINORITY PARTICIPATION FRAMEWORKS AND FINDINGS

Morton A Lieberman and Lonnie R Snowden

Problems in Assessing Prevalence and Membership Characteristics of Self-Help Group Participants

Lonnie R Snowden and Morton A Lieberman

African-American Participation in Self-Help Groups

Keith Humphreys and Michael D Woods

Researching Mutual Help Group Participation in a Segregated Society

Douglas A Luke, Linda Roberts and Julian Rappaport

Individual, Group Context, and Individual-Group Fit Predictors of Self-Help Group Attendance

PART THREE: EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS

Julian Rappaport

Narrative Studies, Personal Studies, and Identity Transformation in the Mutual Help Context

Kenneth I Maton

Moving Beyond the Individual Level of Analysis in Mutual-Help Group Research

An Ecological Paradigm

Caroline L Kaufmann

Consumer Roles in Self-Help Group Research

Mellen Kennedy, Keith Humphreys and Thomasina Borkman

The Naturalistic Paradigm as an Approach to Research with Mutual Help Groups

PART FOUR: FINDINGS

Gregory Meissen and Mary Warren

The Self-Help Clearinghouse

A New Development in Action Research for Community Psychology

Kermit B Nash and Kathryn D Kramer

Self-Help for Sickle Cell Disease in African American Communities

Marsha A Schubert and Thomasina Borkman

Identifying the Experiential Knowledge Developed within a Self-Help Group

Christine L Saulnier

Twelve Steps for Everyone? Lesbians in Al-Anon

J B Kingree and R Barry Ruback

Understanding Self-Help Groups

Linda Farris Kurtz

Self-Help Groups for Families with Mental Illness or Alcoholism

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