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Clearinghouse is a peer-run national technical assistance and resource center that fosters recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. The Clearinghouse serves individuals with lived experience of a mental health condition, peer-run service and advocacy organizations, family members, mental health professionals and service providers, policy makers, and the public.

The National Self-Help Clearinghouse is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1976 to facilitate access to self-help groups and increase the awareness of the importance of mutual support.

The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse is a self-help technical assistance organization that was established in 1985. The clearinghouse handles thousands of inquiries annually from people who are concerned with mental health issues. Clients include mental health care consumers, family members, professionals, and other interested people whom request information and technical assistance about starting and developing self-help projects, self-advocacy projects and consumer-run mental health services. The clearinghouse also provides on-site consultations to individuals and groups interested in self-help group and consumer-run service development. In addition, it sponsors conferences and training events and has developed a wide variety of printed pamphlets and manuals on issues related to developing self-help and self-advocacy projects. A national quarterly newsletter, “The Key”, provides assistance to consumers, their families, advocates, and physicians.

The NEW JERSEY SELF-HELP GROUP CLEARINGHOUSE was started in 1981 as the first statewide operation of its kind in the country. The mission of the Clearinghouse is to help people find and form all types of self-help support groups in order to provide hope, strength and experience to those in need in order to not feel alone.

Es una Organización de la Sociedad Civil mexicana sin afán de lucro que, desde marzo de 1994, tiene como misión: promover y desarrollar una cultura de salud en los ámbitos individual, familiar, institucional, comunitario y social, enfatizando la problemática derivada del uso, abuso y adicción a sustancias psicoactivas, así como de los comportamientos compulsivos y de la salud mental en general.

Acervo de archivos en PDF de la revista "Campo Grupal" ofrecido por Roman Mazzilli.

Palabras, imágenes, sonidos y silencios de la tribu.

Ediciones en PDF de la revista "Campo Grupal" para descarga.

Aperturas Psicoanalíticas nació en abril de 1999, fundada por el profesor Hugo Bleichmar, como publicación con formato electrónico de libre acceso patrocinada por la Sociedad Forum de Psicoterapia Psicoanalítica.

La revista se ha dedicado desde su inicio a la difusión del psicoanálisis contemporáneo en español principalmente desde una perspectiva clínica, contribuyendo al desarrollo de la teoría y la clínica psicoanalíticas dentro de un marco integrador. Aperturas ha recibido más de 5.000.000 de visitas en estos años, y cuenta entre sus publicaciones con aproximadamente 600 artículos originales y más de 400 reseñas de artículos y libros.

Además de publicaciones de artículos originales en español, Aperturas tiene la peculiaridad de haber desarrollado una sólida tradición en la traducción de trabajos relevantes de autores internacionales. Con los años, ha llegado a ser un referente para teóricos y clínicos de habla hispana, tanto en España como en Latinoamérica, interesados en los desarrollos más recientes del psicoanálisis.

Investigadora estadounidense especializada en grupos de autoayuda / ayuda mutua. Coordinadora del Journal de la materia: International Journal of Self-Help and Self-Care.

Self-help groups provide an immense amount of service, which mental health professionals do not adequately understand or coordinate with their services. Epidemiological surveys have documented the profiles of self-help users, the amount of self-help use, and the association between self-help use and professional services. The large majority of self-help users use professional services sometimes as a gateway into professional services, other times concurrently with professional service or as aftercare following a course of professional services. The hallmark features of self-help groups: Their use of the experiential perspective, referent power, and reciprocal helping relationships are contrasted with professional mental health services. The essential elements of effective referrals to self-help groups are discussed. At another level, the chapter also discusses the organizational supports necessary for effective collaboration between self-help groups and professional services. While the boundaries between mental health services and self-help groups must be respected, both parties have much to gain by entering into more extensive community partnerships.

We explore how Norwegian self-help groups are defined and managed to create a particular form of health system governmentality. Self-help groups are typically framed as therapeutic communities where participants define the agenda creating a space where open and equal interaction can produce individual learning and personal growth. In Norway, however, self-help groups are managed in a way that integrates them in to the health system but insulates them from clinical medicine; an approach that disciplines participants to act in a particular way in relation to the health system.

Desde la incorporación de la mujer al mundo laboral, junto con el envejecimiento progresivo de la población y el aumento de las enfermedades crónicas, se produce una alteración en el rol del cuidador, debido a la carga física, laboral y familiar que soporta, generándose conflictos emocionales y con el resto de miembros de la familia. La ayuda mutua puede ser una alternativa eficaz para promover el bienestar de los cuidadores, así como el de sus familias y dependientes.

The concept of “Self-help group” (SHG) has been attracting scientific focus from different disciplines. In general, SHGs can be objectified as a spontaneous civil initiative leading to formation of collective activities through fostering solidarity to tackle any types of life challenges, such as poverty, gender-inequality, discrimination, and any type of marginalization. Also, different groups have different shared objectives; peersupport on medical conditions or both physical and mental disabilities, alcoholic addiction, and environmental issues shared among local community, just to name a few. This research elucidates how different academic disciplines separately analyze SHGs without enough inter-reference and problematizes a fragmentation of SHGs research caused by a lack of interdisciplinary approach, ending in failure of constructive studies. In conclusion, the author reveals a possible framework to grasp the whole picture of SHGs.

Professor of Participative Inquiry and Collaborative Practice. She joined ARU in 1995 after many years as a social researcher and research manager in various health and social services settings. Her current research includes work with self-help/mutual aid groups in the community, training and supporting citizen researchers and more recently how the use of participatory arts can improve wellbeing in a variety of health and social care contexts. Carol leads and contributes to a number of regional, national and internationally funded projects in relation to these areas.

Jürgen Matzat graduated in psychology and since 1977 has worked as a psychological psychotherapist at the Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where his research projects include Psychological Therapeutic Self-Help Groups (Prof. M. L. Moeller) and Self-Help Groups for Patients Suffering from Psychological and Psychosomatic Disorders (Prof. M. E. Beutel). He is one of the founders and long-standing board member of a professional organisation, the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Selbsthilfegruppen e. V. (German Association of Self-Help Groups) and since 1987 has been head of the contact centre for self-help groups at the Department of Psychosomatics in Giessen. Jürgen Matzat participated in the German government’s two model programmes for supporting self-help groups. He is the editor of the Selbsthilfegruppenjahrbuch (Self-Help Groups Yearbook) and has written a range of publications on self-help. He is also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Self-Help & Self-Care. For many years he has been involved in the healthcare policy surrounding self-help groups. He is the patient representative in the psychotherapy subcommittee of the Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (Federal Joint Committee), the psychotherapy admissions and approval committee and the committee for the state of Hesse as well as in other working groups developing medical care guidelines; in addition, he represents the Giessen district in the Gesunde Städte-Netzwerk (Healthy Towns and Cities Network).

Artículo de journal que requiere acceso: Se anota porque el siguiente resumen ya dice mucho sobre los grupos de autoayuda en Alemania.

This article describes the development and current state of collective self-help in Germany, which is unique in Europe. It has received high recognition from both our society and the state, e. g., in the form of mandatory funding of self-help through the statutory health insurance funds. Since 2004, patient participation in the decision-making bodies of the self-governed German health care system has also been statutorily regulated, first of all in the so called "Joint Federal Committee". The relationship between doctors' organisations, such as the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer), the National Association of Statutory Health In-surance Physicians together with the Regional Associations of Statutory Health In-surance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung), and the scientific medical societies, has also shifted towards more cooperation, and specific bodies have been set up to this end. Finally, the Agency for Quality in Medicine (AQuMed, ÄZQ) and the Association of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF) have contributed enormously to the involvement of patient representatives in guideline development groups. The author shares his personal experience in the closing section.

Investigador en el campo de los grupos de autoayuda / ayuda mutua.

Self-Help UK: Supporting and encouraging Self Help Groups. Empowering self care through mutual support. Giving people the tools and resources they need.

Self Help UK was extremely honoured to host the 14th European Experts Meeting held in Nottingham, UK in September 2017. Experts from 12 European countries were welcomed to the city by the Sheriff of Nottingham; Cllr Michael Edwards and guest speakers included Professor Alf Collins, Clinical Director for Personalised Care, NHS England and David Pearson CBE, Sustainability and Transformation Partnership Lead, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

International Journal of Self Help and Self Care - Published by Portico - Online ISSN: 1541-4450 - Print ISSN: 1091-2851: Journal científico propio de la especialidad de grupos de autoayuda / ayuda mutua.

Fundador y coordinador de la oficina de apoyo a grupos de autoayuda de EUA.