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Peer reviewedStorer, John H.; And Others – Family Relations, 1987
Examines the ways hypertension therapy-related stress is mediated by extended family-based self-help groups in rural, central Mississippi. Concludes that these self-help groups are the best means of controlling hypertension in this area because they are built upon an existing family structure and involve the entire extended family in adapting to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Compliance (Psychology), Extended Family, Family Problems
Peer reviewedTurner, David N.; Saunders, Danny – Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application, 1990
Observed 2 Gamblers Anonymous (GA) groups in South Wales over a 12-month period. Determined 2 broad consequences arose from encountering fellow sufferers: acceptance of diagnosis and commitment to recovery and to will of GA, or rejection of the diagnosis with the knowledge that they are returning to the outside world with a reconstituted…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Foreign Countries, Group Counseling, Group Therapy
