How Long to Read Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid by Thomasina Borkman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Self-help groups have encountered fierce criticism as places where individuals join to share personal problems and to engage in therapeutic intervention without the aid of skilled professionals. These groups have flourished since the 1970s and continue to serve more people than professional therapy. Yet these groups have been criticized as fostering a culture of whiners and victims, and not using professional help as needed. Thomasina Jo Borkman debunks this commonly held assessment, and also examines the reasons for these groups' enduring popularity since the 1960s--more people attend these meetings (word?) than see professional therapists. What accounts for their success and popularity? Understanding Self-Help / Mutual-Aid Groups is the first book to describe three stages of individual and group evolution that is part of this organization's very structure; it also reconceptualizes participants' interactions with professionals. The group as a whole, Borkman posits, draws on the life experiences of its membes to foster nurturing, support, and transformation through a "circle of sharing." Groups create more positive and less stigmatizing "meaning perspectives" of the members' problems than is available from professionals or lay folk culture.

How long is Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid?

Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid by Thomasina Borkman is 284 pages long, and a total of 72,136 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid?

Understanding Self-help/mutual Aid is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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