Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations, and the Life Cycle

Using the life cycle as a framework, this revised edition inquires into the healing and empowering process of mutual aid groups. The authors cover topics including the fundamentals of the mutual aid process, suggestions for overcoming obstacles in the process, the institutional benefits of group service, and specific clinical examples of mutual aid groups. New chapters in this second edition include discussions of HIV-positive and AIDS patients, the homeless, and perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse and family violence. Mutual Aid Groups is replete with group practice illustrations that students and professionals will find essentialGitterman, Alex is the author of 'Mutual Aid Groups, Vulnerable Populations, and the Life Cycle', published 1994 under ISBN 9780231082884 and ISBN 0231082886.