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Peer reviewedMarieskind, Helen I. – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that today, a gynecological self help group tries to make easily understood information about womens' bodies, bodily processes, and related health care available to all women. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Clinics, Females, Feminism, Health Education
Peer reviewedRiessman, Frank – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that one of the most significant characteristics of mutual aid groups is the fact that they are empowering and thus delineating. They enable members to feel and use their strengths, their own power, to have control over their own lives. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Individual Power, Program Attitudes, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedKirshbaum, Hal R.; And Others – Social Policy, 1976
Reports on the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California, one of the most remarkable and probably the largest self-help enterprise of disabled people to have surfaced in the past 25 years. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Community Support, Health Needs, Individual Power, Models
Peer reviewedHess, Beth B. – Social Policy, 1976
Explores the concepts of support systems and self help and presents a paradigm for relating the two. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Support, Conceptual Schemes, Geriatrics, Gerontology
