Evaluation of Ongoing Participation of People with Schizophrenia in a Mutual Support Group as a Complementary Intervention to Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Alberto Orsi ◽  
Fernando Rocha Loures Malinowski ◽  
Simão Kagan ◽  
Richard Weingarten ◽  
Cecília Cruz Villares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Complementary Intervention

scholarly journals Words Medicine Residents Use to Describe Substance Use Disorders After Attending a Mutual Support Group Meeting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Kennedy ◽  
Keely Lombardi ◽  
Gretchen Fruehstorfer ◽  
Megan Hamm ◽  
Melissa McNeil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Group Meeting ◽  
Mutual Support

The Marital Helping Relationship Following Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA S. SMART
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Infant Death ◽  
Pregnancy Loss ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Peer Support Group ◽  
Helping Relationship

Few studies have examined the therapeutic helping relationship within married couples, and those that have done so have considered stressor events that affect one spouse more than the other. This qualitative study of couples who experienced pregnancy loss and infant death explores the emotional support that spouses give to their partner. A minority of couples did not provide support to each other. In most couples, however, the support was described by both partners as mutual. Among all couples who provided mutual support, most of these perceived a fairly even exchange; some saw the husband as providing more support than he received, and one couple felt that the wife had been the primary helper. Couples who provided very little support to each other were helped by attending a peer support group.

Mutual Support Groups With Parents of Leukemic Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Lambi
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Similar Group ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Pediatric Department ◽  
Mutual Support Groups ◽  
Excellent Article

Having read the article, "Group Discussion With the Parents of Leukemic Children," by Heffron et al. (Pediatrics, 52:831, 1973) with great interest, I would like to suggest that similar group meetings are being held at other centers. I draw to your attention the excellent article, "Helping the Parents of Children With Leukemia," by Knapp and Hansen, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (Social Work, Vol. 18, No. 4, July 1973). Dr. Brian McSheffrey and I, through our contact with leukemic children in the Pediatric Department of University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, have been experimenting with mutual support group for parents of leukemic children since November 1971.

scholarly journals How Could Peers in Online Health Community Help Improve Health Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 2995
Author(s):  
Yumei Li ◽  
Xiangbin Yan
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Descriptive Norms ◽  
The Social

Human behavior is the largest source of variance in health-related outcomes, and the increasingly popular online health communities (OHC) can be used to promote healthy behavior and outcomes. We explored how the social influence (social integration, descriptive norms and social support) exerted by online social relationships does affect the health behavior of users. Based on an OHC, we considered the effect of three types of social relationships (friendship, mutual support group and competing group) in the OHC. We found that social integration, descriptive norms and social support (information and emotional support) from the OHC had a positive effect on dietary and exercise behavior. Comparing the effects of different social relationships, we found that the stronger social relationship—friendship—had a stronger effect on health behavior than the mutual support group and competing group. Emotional support had a stronger effect on health behavior than informational support. We also found that the effects of social integration and informational support became stronger as membership duration increased, but the effects of the descriptive norms and emotional support became smaller. This study extended the research on health behavior to the online social environment and explored how the social influence exerted by various social relationships in an OHC affected health behavior. The results could be used for guiding users to make use of online social relationships for changing and maintaining healthy behavior, and helping healthcare websites improve their services.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Exploration of Some Unresolved Clinical Issues

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Julian Hafner ◽  
Robyn J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Significant Excess ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Australian Community

The study data were obtained from a questionnaire survey of a South Australian community support group for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The response rate was 47%, yielding 81 questionnaire sets completed by members who, on the basis of their questionnaire responses, were judged to meet DSM-Ill-R criteria for OCD. The clinical and demographic characteristics of the respondents were very similar to those of previously reported clinical populations. Mean age at onset of OCD was 18 years and mean duration 17 years; 55% of respondents rated their current OCD as extremely or very severe. Seventy-seven percent had received psychiatric treatment (mean 55 occasions) and 47% had attended clinical psychologists or professional counsellors (mean 20 occasions). Those who reported prominent fears of losing control of motor behaviours had received a significant excess of outpatient and inpatient psychiatric treatment. Most respondents reported the presence of all 4 identified components of OCD, of which the obsession/rumination component was central. Levels of OCD correlated strongly with levels of overall psychopathology, and fertility rates were significantly reduced in those patients who reported the most symptoms.

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