Natural delivery systems: Accessible sources of power for mental health.

Collins, Alice H.

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1973.tb00782.x

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“…At the same time, interventions into the helping ecosystem should be compatible with and facilitative of the natural processes one wishes to enhance (Collins, 1973). Moreover, people prefer this informal system.…”

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Natural networks: Help‐giving and help‐seeking in two rural communities

Young

Giles

Plantz

1982

American J of Comm Psychol

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A group of 213 respondents in rural communities were interviewed about their help-giving and help-seeking behaviors related to 11 problems of living. Respondents were asked whom they had talked to within their natural community networks, who was most helpful, and how effective they rated the helping. The results indicate that over 80% of the respondents saw themselves as active help-givers and receivers in exchanges with spouses, friends, relatives, and others. A wide range of helping activities were reported, led by attempts to understand another person's situation and feelings and just listening. Differences in help-giving and help-seeking were noted. Respondents indicated a general willingness to tackle problems, a preference for help from people within their networks, and that this type of help is effective.

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Natural networks: Help‐giving and help‐seeking in two rural communities

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Giles

Plantz

1982

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…A possible employer may be in the group, someone may know of a vacant apartment, someone may possess a specific skill, or general positive expectations may be tapped (13). A similar theme is found in viewing individuals in the neighborhood as possible resources the "natural neighbor" (9). The logic is that since patterns of mutual aid and caregiving exist in family networks, these should be identified and perhaps intensified in practice.…”

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The Concept of Personal Network in Clinical Practice

Erickson

1975

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The practice of clinicians in all the helping professions has undergone wide‐ranging change in the past two decades. This change has been uneven and halting, but an essential aspect has been a movement toward a wider arena of practice, including a variety of social network practices. The concept of personal network holds high promise for becoming a major unifying framework in clinical practice: as an analytic viewpoint, as a schema for problem location, and as an arena of practice and research. This paper will review the developing strands of network practice, examine some of the forms and characteristics of personal networks, and consider several theoretical and practice issues.

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“…Einmal handelt es sich hierbei um Personen, die als ‚community care-takers', ‚urban agents', ‚natural neighbours' oder allgemein als ‚natural helpers' einer Gemeinde bezeichnet werden (Gershon & Biller, 1977;Collins, 1973). Nach Frohland u.a.…”

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Alltägliche Helferinnen — unabdingbar und allgegenwärtig — übersehen und vernachlässigt

Nestmann

2005

Gruppendynamik

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Alltägliche Helferinnen -unabdingbar und allgegenwärtig -übersehen und vernachlässigt Alltägliche Helfer und Helferinnen sind eine weitgehend übersehene Ressource von Gesundheitsförderung und Belastungsbewältigung. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Forschungsbereichen, die sich mit informellen sozialen Unterstützungsleistungen und ihren Folgen befassen, hat sich die alltägliche Helferforschung der 80er Jahre kaum weiterentwickelt. Dabei zeigt sich eine große Palette an alltäglichen Hilfequellen, noch dazu, wenn man über den primären und traditionellen Bereich der Familie und Verwandtschaft hinaus Freundschaften, Nachbarschaften, Kollegenkreise und insbesondere rollen-und berufsrollenspezifische informelle Helfergruppen betrachtet. Ihre Hilfeleistungen in den jeweils spezifischen sozialökologischen Kontexten, die Hilfemotivationen und Hilfeformen etc. werden vergleichend analysiert.Natural helpers are central figures in social functioning of community as well as sources of support and help in our everyday life and crisis. But research does not seem to be very interested in what they do and achieve, how and why they do it e.g. Natural helper studies stagnated in the 1980 ties although we know about their importance as strong ties as well as in extended networks. The article reviews natural helpers help giving in different social constellations, situations and contexts.

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Natural delivery systems: Accessible sources of power for mental health.

Cited by 24 publications

References 5 publications

Natural networks: Help‐giving and help‐seeking in two rural communities

Natural networks: Help‐giving and help‐seeking in two rural communities

The Concept of Personal Network in Clinical Practice

Alltägliche Helferinnen — unabdingbar und allgegenwärtig — übersehen und vernachlässigt

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