2009
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20288
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Researching community‐based support networks: what policymakers should know

Ann Dadich

Abstract: Self‐help support groups (SHSGs) have a valuable role in civic society. However, it is difficult to measure their value through sole use of the positivist approaches that interest policymakers. This is because SHSGs are consumer‐driven and voluntary. Thus, they cannot be regulated by research agendas or prescribed like treatment. Although social policy has an important role in the use and availability of SHSGs, the author argues that social policy research in this field needs to demonstrate paradigmatic plural… Show more

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“…Academic enquiry into mutual aid and peer support in areas adjacent to strictly victimological ones -for instance those concerning life-threatening illnesses -often fails to understand the identity-based nature and functioning of these groups (Dadich, 2009). In a mechanistic fashion, they are seen, evaluated and even criticized for their value as a therapeutic style intervention.…”
Section: The Narrative Experience Of Coping With Victimization and Itmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Academic enquiry into mutual aid and peer support in areas adjacent to strictly victimological ones -for instance those concerning life-threatening illnesses -often fails to understand the identity-based nature and functioning of these groups (Dadich, 2009). In a mechanistic fashion, they are seen, evaluated and even criticized for their value as a therapeutic style intervention.…”
Section: The Narrative Experience Of Coping With Victimization and Itmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Service providers who are also service users are perceived as more sensitive to client needs, and there is a promotion of hope and an aspect of positive role-modeling which occurs (Walsh, 1996). Selfhelp groups, which are run by service users and can include professional input, have been correlated with a reduction in psychiatric symptoms, hospitalization and medication dependence (Dadich, 2009). Self help/support groups have the following components: shared experience of mental illness which develops into unique insight; the group determines their own activities; the most effective way to be helped is to give help; support is reciprocal; the focus is not on pathology but rather on inner strength; support is free and not financially driven; support is provided by social interaction; the group is not dependent on professional help, rather they can manage by themselves with the wisdom gained from experience (Dadich, 2009).…”
Section: Service-user Run Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Selfhelp groups, which are run by service users and can include professional input, have been correlated with a reduction in psychiatric symptoms, hospitalization and medication dependence (Dadich, 2009). Self help/support groups have the following components: shared experience of mental illness which develops into unique insight; the group determines their own activities; the most effective way to be helped is to give help; support is reciprocal; the focus is not on pathology but rather on inner strength; support is free and not financially driven; support is provided by social interaction; the group is not dependent on professional help, rather they can manage by themselves with the wisdom gained from experience (Dadich, 2009). Lawn, Smith and Hunter (2008) studied the use of peer support groups to reduce re-admission to, and to promote early admission from, hospital, finding that people who experience mental illness (and are living well) can provide valuable support for other people with mental illness.…”
Section: Service-user Run Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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