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Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support: A Literature Review

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posted on 2023-08-30, 17:38 authored by Thomasina Borkman, Melanie J. Boyce, Carol Munn-Giddings
English-language social and behavioral science research into US self-help/mutual aid groups and nonprofit organizations (e.g., Alcoholics Anonymous, Parents Without Partners, or bereavement groups) is reviewed. The review begins in the 1960s and proceeds into the new millennium, when institutionalized self-help/mutual aid was co-opted and renamed “support groups” by professionals. SHGs are intentionally created, single-issue, voluntary member-run mutual benefit groups that value the authority of lived experience, are cost-free, and where peers give and receive help from each other. Research attention expanded to European and Asian research in the 1990s, but has now switched to mental health peer support.

History

Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

5

Issue number

2-3

Page range

141-162

Series

Voluntaristics Review

Publication title

Voluntaristics Review

ISSN

2405-4933

Publisher

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden, NL

Title of book

Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support: A Literature Review

ISBN

978-90-04-44799-8

Editors

Thomasina Borkman

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2020-09-10

Legacy creation date

2020-09-10

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care