The Self-Help Group Sourcebook: Your Guide to Community & Online Support Groups

The 7th edition of this guide provides information on over one thousand national, international, model, and online "self-help" support groups for most any illness, disability, addiction, bereavement situation, parenting concern, caregiver, abuse, or other stressful life situation. Includes chapters on: how to start a community mutual aid self-help group; finding and forming online groups; local self-help group clearinghouses worldwide; understanding the value and dynamics of groups; and reviews of empirical research studies done of self-help groups. Has both a keyword index, and a separate group name index. Foreword by the late Dr. Alfred Katz, U.C.L.A. departments of Medicine, Public Health, and Social Welfare. Introduction by Dr. Phyllis Silverman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard University.