The emergence of the inner-city self-help center

Jason, Leonard A.; Tabon, Danièl; Tait, Elizabeth; Iacono, Georgeann; Goodman, Daniel; Watkins, Peggy; Huggins, Gregory

doi:10.1002/1520-6629(198807)16:3<287::aid-jcop2290160304>3.0.co;2-3

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“…In two Professional Psychology articles, Jason (1985) and Jason et al (1988) provided compelling examples of how professionals can collaborate with self-help organizations. In the first, Jason (1985) gave self-help groups radio time for 1 hr a week.…”

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“…Several group members demonstrated the self-help group process on the air and then took calls from the listening audience. In the second example, Jason et al (1988) consulted with clergy members on behalf of various self-help groups. As a result, self-help activity increased dramatically—number of referrals, group publicity, and new self-help groups all increased.…”

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Integrating self-help into psychotherapy: 16 practical suggestions.

Norcross¹

2006

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Psychologists routinely recommend self-help to their patients but desire guidance on the optimal methods and resources for doing so. This article provides 16 suggestions, culled from both the research literature and clinical experience, for integrating self-help into psychotherapy. Among the clinical recommendations are broadening the definition of self-help, assessing clients' self-help histories, offering tangible support in linking clients with self-help, tailoring the self-help resource to the person (not only the disorder), assisting clients with the administration of difficult self-help programs, using self-help during waiting and maintenance stages, and addressing clients' reservations about its use. Psychologists' top-rated self-help books, autobiographies, and films are presented. By their behavior, psychologists can enhance the effectiveness of self-help within the context of psychotherapy.

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Integrating self-help into psychotherapy: 16 practical suggestions.

Norcross¹

2006

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…During its Inner City Project, the Illinois Self-Help Center learned that researchers and the community might differ in their primary group objective when opposing views developed over the exchange of resources. After Jason's (1988) two-year process documenting the involvement of community gatekeepers and local professionals in building the concept of inner-city SHGs, it became clear that there was a mismatch in objectives between community leaders, who wanted economic development selfhelp, and the self-help leaders on the committee, who wanted peer support groups. Differing opinions between community leaders and SHGs can confound research objectives.…”

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Self-help research: Issues of power sharing.

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Humphreys³

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Participatory Community Research: Theories and Methods in Action.

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Few published articles or chapters delineate the complexities confronting researchers and self-help group (SHG) members involved in collaborative research. This chapter articulates limitations to reliance on collaborative (power sharing) and participatory action research (PAR) methods as the sole or primary methods for SHG research. It examines (through an empirical study of 17 selfhelp groups) the conditions under which SHG members and researchers have positive and negative experiences with collaborative and PAR approaches.Some scientists are open to power sharing with SHGs (and self-help clearinghouses as well) and to an action research orientation in general. However, other researchers trained in traditional research methods are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with collaborative research approaches. They debate whether professionals should "assist" SHGs through collaborative action research because of the possibilities of inhibiting the group's sense of self-responsibility or of losing scientific rigor. Although Borman (1979) and others have clearly outlined professional roles that support SHG autonomy, many of which include participatory or action research, the extent of power sharing varies across and within research projects.

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“…This intervention was aimed at enhancing the effectiveness for inner-city residents of a general televised smoking cessation program. The study developed as part of a large project to facilitate the emergence of self-help in the inner-city, which is described in Jason et al (1988). It was hypothesized that participants who watched the televised program, used the manual, received supportive phone calls, and attended self-help groups would achieve higher levels of abstinence and would maintain their abstinence longer than smokers who were not provided the structured program.…”

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Effects of a televised smoking cessation intervention among low‐income and minority smokers

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Goodman

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American J of Comm Psychol

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In November 1985, a television smoking cessation program was broadcast for 20 days on the noon and 9 p.m. news. Smokers in West Garfield Park, an inner-city impoverished area of Chicago, were randomly assigned either to a comprehensive intervention or to a no-intervention control condition. Although 100,000 self-help manuals had been distributed throughout Chicago, none of the controls in this low-income area had obtained a manual. The intervention consisted of providing the smokers a self-help manual, the televised broadcast, weekly support meetings, and supportive phone calls. At a 4-month follow-up, 20% of treatment participants were abstinent compared to 9% of controls. The results indicated that intensive supplementary opportunities enhanced participation by low-income smokers in a media smoking cessation program.

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The emergence of the inner-city self-help center

Cited by 6 publications

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Integrating self-help into psychotherapy: 16 practical suggestions.

Integrating self-help into psychotherapy: 16 practical suggestions.

Self-help research: Issues of power sharing.

Effects of a televised smoking cessation intervention among low‐income and minority smokers

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