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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"mutual help"”.
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Becoming a grower: World view transformation among committed members of a mutual help group
… committed members of a 12 Step mental health mutual help group called GROW. The purpose of the study was to explore and further our understanding of the phenomenon of world view transformation by listening to the stories of committed members of a mutual help group. More specifically, the …
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Giving and receiving help: Group behavioral predictors of outcomes for members of a mutual help organization
"Although mutual help groups are addressing the mental health needs of millions of Americans, empirical research has not kept pace with the growth and popularity of the movement. The present empirical investigation focuses on one mutual help organization for ex-mental patients and: (a) provides …
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Psychologically Distressed Adults Coping With Recent Upsetting Events: The Effects of Participation in a Mutual Help Organization
… 262 psychologically distressed adult members of mutual help groups. In structured interviews, participants reported how they responded to the most upsetting events in the previous two weeks. The results indicate that sulking responses (isolating and brooding) are consistently associated with …
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Social Networks, Social Support and Psychological Adjustment Among Participants in a Mutual Help Organization for the Mentally Ill
… of 97 men and women seeking participation in a mutual-help organization for individuals with serious mental illness. Respondents completed a self-report interview designed to obtain information about both their total networks (i.e. all persons named by the respondent) and helping networks (i.e. …
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Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Relationship Between Personal Background Characteristics and Participation in a Mutual-Help Group
… characteristics for participation in a mutual-help group is debated by observers of these groups. Some contend that these characteristics are relatively unimportant, and that sharing a problem is the essential factor. Others suggest that the observed demographic homogeneity of these …
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Ativismo, ajuda mútua e assistencia: a atuacao das Organizacoes Nao-Governamentais na luta contra a aids
… in different ways; 3) Identify how activism, mutual-help, and care are connected with each other among the groups that organize the scenario of the struggle against the pandemic and 4) Characterize the social movement of the fight against AIDS in Brazil, contrasting it with the Canadian …
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Pelaksanaan akad tabarru’ pada asuransi syariah: Studi di Takaful Indonesia Cabang Malang
… ridha Allah SWT. ENGLISH: Islamic Insurance is a mutual effort to protect and mutual help among a number of the person / party through investment in assets and / or tabarru’ which gives pattern of return to a particular risk through the contract (engagement) in accordance with Islamic principles. …
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Juovasta alkoholistista raittiiksi alkoholistiksi : Pitkäaikaisten AA:laisten kertomuksia alkoholisoitumisesta ja AA:n merkityksestä raitistumisessa ja nykyisyydessä
… Klaus Mäkelän et al. Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-Help Movement. A Study in Eight Societies (1996) ja AA-liikkeen oma kirjallisuus.
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Labor and social barter in an Appalachian community: Carroll County, Virginia, 1880s-1930s
… their families. Carroll County residents also helped each other through the practice of mutual aid. When crops needed harvesting, neighboring farmers pitched in to help. Younger residents took care of and housed their elderly kin. These practices of mutual aid did not cease to exist with the …
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Toward a Model of 12-Step Engagement: Predicting Recovery Involvement in Narcotics Anonymous
… and are noteworthy public health concerns. Mutual help organizations (MHOs) such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous are considered evidence-based practices for SUDs. Despite a growing body of research examining mechanisms of change in MHOs, relatively few investigations of …
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A coal mining community in late nineteenth-century Shropshire: frontier settlement or close-knit community?
… overlap of social networks, of co-operation and mutual help, with little antisocial behaviour. Whilst Madeley had characteristics of both a close- and loose-knit community, the thesis has shown that it could more accurately be described as the former in 1891.
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… wherein couples unite both body and soul for “mutual help” towards spiritual advancement. Milton’s argument also supports the right to divorce if couples find themselves in marriages that do not meet this definition.</p>
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Using Metaphors to Explore the Experiences of Powerlessness Among Women in Twelve-Step Substance Abuse Recovery
… recovery are the most popular and most used mutual-help model in the U.S. One of the pivotal aspects of Twelve-Step is the often controversial idea of powerlessness. While a few recent dissertations have been conducted to look at issues related to women in Twelve-Step, most of what has been …
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Organized self-help housing as an enabling shelter & development strategy. Lessons from current practice, institutional approaches and projects in developing countries
… develop better understanding on organized self-help housing as an enabling shelter and development strategy to overcome poverty and build more resilient communities. The study addresses organized self-help housing from three different perspectives: a) current practice in developing countries; b) …
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Rural Credit Markets in Ethiopia: Coexistence, Persistence, and Demand
… status, flood, labor sharing, membership in mutual help association, total oxen owned, storing crop, off-farm activities, and fertilizer use are an important determinant of the probability of being a borrower. Chapter three examines the determinants of demand for credit in rural Ethiopia. …
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Kinship and modernisation : an analysis of a Cham community of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
… The degree of cooperation in the village helps producers to produce and market larger quantities than if everyone operated as an isolated unit. The spirit of mutual help which pervades this community, and which is interrelated with kinship, is an important aspect of this study. Through the …