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Gaudia, Ronald – Social Work, 1987
Discusses the "hidden illness" of compulsive gambling. Describes course of the disease, theories of compulsive gambling, effects of compulsive gambling on gambler's wife and children, the organization Gam-Anon, and human service agencies' staff training and counseling intake procedures. Recommends self-help groups for all family members.…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Family Problems, Mental Disorders, Self Help Programs

Charping, John W.; Slaughter, Mariam M. – Social Work, 1988
Describes Project HELP, an innovative community self-help program in Nashville, Tennessee which was developed in response to the inability of certain populations to pay their utility bills, and which is staffed primarily with volunteers and funded exclusively through contributions. Reports on the program's first five years of operation, and…
Descriptors: Community Action, Expenditures, Heating, Program Implementation

Smith, Ann Volkman – Social Work, 1986
Discusses a model for social work intervention with a self-help group in a hospital setting, designed to reach out and support new parents of premature infants in a neonatal intensive care nursery. Social workers serve as family advocates, instructors, consultants, and facilitators for volunteer veteran parents groups. (ABB)
Descriptors: Hospitals, Neonates, Outreach Programs, Parent Associations

Morell, Carolyn – Social Work, 1996
Treatment programs promote individual solutions to substance abuse through changing dysfunctional behavior and relying on spiritual beliefs and practices. Root problems are understood to be diseases within the person. However, the social conditions implicated in causing the addiction remain unaddressed. Questions whether social workers can bring…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged, Drug Addiction, Individual Development