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By Its Very Definition, Self-help Suggests A Person's Autonomous Effort To Solve A Problem. Yet, As Alfred H. Katz Argues In This Sociohistorical Introduction To The Self-help Culture, What Links America's Diverse Self-help Organizations Is The Shared Belief That The Group Experience Itself Allows The Individual To Work Through His Or Her Problem And Live A Normal Life. Taking Personal Testimonials In Tandem With Scholarly Research, Katz Analyzes What He Calls The Phenomenon Of Self-help In The United States, Where Possibly As Many As 730,000 Such Groups With At Least 10 To 15 Million Members Currently Operate. That Programs Managed By Human-services Professionals And Agencies Have Failed To Address Particular Public Needs Is Attested To By The Rapid Rate At Which Self-help Groups Have Been Forming Over The Last 20 Years, According To Katz.^ Although Katz Uses Social Movement Criteria In Looking At Why And How Self-help Groups Work, He Notes That The Huge Diversity Among Such Groups And Their Lack Of A Unifying Political Force Renders The Description Social Trend More Accurate. To Highlight The Respective Characteristics Of The Two Main Types Of Self-help Groups, 12-step And Non-12

Author

Alfred Hyman Katz

Publisher

Toronto : New York : Twayne, Maxwell Macmillan Canada. Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805738773

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-24