Self-help/mutual aid groups and peer support: a literature review

Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support A Literature Review -- Thomasina Borkman, Carol Munn-Giddings and Melanie Boyce -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Synopsis -- Editor's Introduction to VR 5.2-3: The Larger Academic Context of Self-Help and Mutual Aid Research in Voluntaristics -- 1 Introduc...

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1. Verfasser: Borkman, Thomasina 1936- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston BRILL 2021
Schriftenreihe:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Ser
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Zusammenfassung:Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support A Literature Review -- Thomasina Borkman, Carol Munn-Giddings and Melanie Boyce -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Synopsis -- Editor's Introduction to VR 5.2-3: The Larger Academic Context of Self-Help and Mutual Aid Research in Voluntaristics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 North American Self-Help/Mutual Aid Social Movements -- 3 Research from the North American Perspective in the 1990s and After -- 4 How Social Governance, Health Care, and Civil Society Shape Self-Help/Mutual Aid and Peer Support in Europe -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Author Biographies -- List of Case Illustrations -- List of Tables -- References
"Thomasina Borkman reviews English-language social science research on North American self-help/mutual aid groups (SHGs) and organizations and some from industrialized countries. SHGs, known by many names, are voluntary, member-run groups of peers who share a common issue, utilize lived experience, and practice mutual aid. Borkman's autoethnographic approach highlights her international SHG participation. Despite initial common values and practices in the 1960s and on, Alcoholics Anonymous, the mental health SHGs, and other SHGs evolved in the US as three separate social movements that became institutionalized by 2000; their history, characteristics, achievements and supportive infrastructure are summarized. British contributors Munn-Giddings and Boyce show in European countries how socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Research has shifted from SHGs to peer support since 2000"--
Beschreibung:simultaneously published as issue 5.2–3 (2020) of Voluntaristics Review,
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 219 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004448001
DOI:10.1163/9789004448001