Support Groups Mutual support or self-help groups are communities of individuals who have the same issue, plight or condition in life and who are joined for mutual aid purposes. That commonality factor is precisely what defines group inclusion. Participants make all choices on material, organization, and external relations. Mutual support groups provide: ● Improved sense of self-worth by concentrating on how members are similar to those facing the same situation ● An opportunity to share coping techniques based on realistic expectations for optimal functioning ● A person-to-person exchange based on identification and reciprocity ● Reinforcement for positive change and maintenance of effort toward change through feedback on performance ● Access to a body of specialized information References American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association. Germain, A., Shear, K., Monk, T., Houck, P., Reynolds, III, C., Frank, E., & Buysse, D. (2006). Treating Complicated Grief: Effects on Sleep Quality. Behavioral Sleep Medicine , 4 (3), 152- 163. doi: 10.1207/s15402010bsm0403_2 Klass, D., Silverman, P., & Nickman, S. (2014). Continuing bonds . Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. Kosminsky, P., & Jordan, J. (2016). Attachment-informed grief therapy . New York: Routledge. Lannen, P., Wolfe, J., Prigerson, H., Onelov, E., & Kreicbergs, U. (2008). Unresolved Grief in a National Sample of Bereaved Parents: Impaired Mental and Physical Health 4 to 9 Years Later. Journal Of Clinical Oncology , 26 (36), 5870-5876. doi: 10.1200/jco.2007.14.6738 Monk, T., Houck, P., & Katherine Shear, M. (2006). The Daily Life of Complicated Grief Patients—What Gets Missed, What Gets Added?. Death Studies , 30 (1), 77-85. doi: 10.1080/07481180500348860 Neimeyer, R. (2015). Techniques of grief therapy . New York: Routledge. NEIMEYER, R., PRIGERSON, H., & DAVIES, B. (2002). Mourning and Meaning. American Behavioral Scientist , 46 (2), 235-251. doi: 10.1177/000276402236676
● Improved sense of personal worth, by reflecting on how members are comparable to those facing the same situation ● An arena for advocacy and social change ● An opportunity for education, not only of other persons with similar problems but also professionals and the public ● A chance to help others by giving concrete aid and providing a role model ● Help for the helpers who themselves are aided by assisting others and by activism toward shared goals Mutual help groups have been organized as alternative caregiving systems, adjuncts to the professional caregiving system, and independent strategic elements in interdependent networks of formal and informal caregiving systems in communities. Ott, C., Lueger, R., Kelber, S., & Prigerson, H. (2007). Spousal Bereavement in Older Adults. Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease , 195 (41), 332-341. doi: 10.1097/01. nmd.0000243890.93992.1e Parkes, C., & Prigerson, H. (2013). Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life . Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. Rubin, N. (1990). Social Networks and Mourning: A Comparative Approach. OMEGA - Journal Of Death And Dying , 21 (2), 113-127. doi: 10.2190/qfe7-q9a1-a5vx-ud9x Sadock, B., Ruiz, P., & Sadock, V. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of psychiatry (11th ed., p. 62). Wolters Kluwer Health. Worden, J. (2018). Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy (5th ed., pp. 42-55). New York: Springer Publishing Company.W
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