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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Internet support group"”.
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"""Starvation...is Who I Am"": From Eating Disorder to Recovering Identities Through Narrative Co-Construction in an Internet Support Group"
… examines narrative activity within an Internet-based support group for women with anorexia and bulimia, alt.support.eating-disord. (ASED), focusing on identity co-construction. Through micro-level discourse analysis, I trace ways in which support group participants portray themselves …
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Internet Support Groups for Parents of Children with Add: An Examination of the Characteristics of Group Members and the Impact of Social Support on Parent Functioning
… of children without ADHD. However, social support is a beneficial coping tool associated with increased mental and physical well-being in those experiencing stress. Although many turn to family and friends for social support, people sometimes go outside of their immediate support network …
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Understanding compulsive buying: The dimensions and management of addictive shopping
<p>Drawing on messages collected from an internet support group, this paper examines the motivations and dimensions of compulsive shopping as an addictive disorder. Two thousand nonrandom internet messages were collected and subjected to content analyses, resulting in a final sample of 197 …
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The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description
… were recruited through membership in the internet support group, “children of hoarders”. All participants identified their mother as the compulsive hoarder. Three distinct themes emerged over three distinct time periods. The first time period begins with early childhood and continues …