Question: Why might someone consider joining a self-help group and what barriers may they encounter? How might people be helped to overcome such barriers? K101 TMA 03
Answer: In this assignment I am going to consider why someone would consider joining a self- help group and what barriers they may encounter and how people might be helped to overcome such barriers. There are many different self-help groups available to people all offering support and advice on a huge range of different problems. Self-help groups can be sought voluntarily others may be ‘compulsory, as in some mental health settings'. (k101, unit6, p52).
'a self-help group consists of people who have personal experiences of a similar problem or life situation, either directly through their family or friends, sharing experiences enables them to give each other a unique quality of mutual support and to pod information and ways of coping'(k101,unit6 p77).
Firstly there are many different reasons for a person joining a self-help group, 'illness, addiction, disability, bringing up childr...(short extract)
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- Subject: Health and Social Care
- Course: Health and Social Care
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 76%
- Words: 1522
- Date submitted: June 20, 2011
- Date written: June, 2010
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 3832
