Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support

A Literature Review
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44799-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Voluntaristics Review

Thomasina Borkman reviews English-language social science research on North American self-help/mutual aid groups (SHGs) and organizations and some from industrialized countries. SHGs, known by many names, are voluntary, member-run groups of peers who share a common issue, utilize lived experience, and practice mutual aid. Borkman’s autoethnographic approach highlights her international SHG participation. Despite initial common values and practices in the 1960s and on, Alcoholics Anonymous, the mental health SHGs, and other SHGs evolved in the US as three separate social movements that became institutionalized by 2000; their history, characteristics, achievements and supportive infrastructure are summarized. British contributors Munn-Giddings and Boyce show in European countries how socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Research has shifted from SHGs to peer support since 2000.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borkman, Thomasina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Munn-Giddings, Carol

Boyce, Melanie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Thomasina Borkman, Carol Munn-Giddings and Melanie Boyce

Abstract

Keywords

Synopsis

Editor’s Introduction to VR 5.2–3: The Larger Academic Context of Self-Help and Mutual Aid Research in Voluntaristics

1 Introduction

2 North American Self-Help/Mutual Aid Social Movements

3 Research from the North American Perspective in the 1990s and After

4 How Social Governance, Health Care, and Civil Society Shape Self-Help/Mutual Aid and Peer Support in Europe

5 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Author Biographies

List of Case Illustrations

List of Tables

References

Über Autor(innen)

Author

Thomasina Borkman, Ph.D. (1969) Columbia University, is Professor of Sociology Emerita at George Mason University. She is known for her research on self-help groups and peer support, especially her book Understanding Self-Help/Mutual Aid: Experiential Learning in the Commons (1999).

Contributing Authors

Carol Munn-Giddings, Ph.D. (2003) Loughborough University, is Professor of Participative Inquiry and Collaborative Practices at Anglia Ruskin University. She is known for her research on self-help/mutual aid and complementary participatory research that engage citizens and practitioners in the research process.

Melanie Boyce, Ph.D. (2016) Anglia Ruskin University, is Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University. She has expertise in undertaking community-based research with groups and communities that are often defined as marginalised, due to their health and/or social situation.