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Self-help groups, then, are much more than meetings of fellow sufferers. They provide a focus for people with similar problems to meet and share their experience and problems, and their ways of coping. They can be centres of social regeneration where individuals who feel isolated and stigmatised can gain strength together to deconstruct their shared problems and reconstruct their lives. (Robinson, 1980)
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Douglas, T. (1993). Group Design II. In: A Theory of Groupwork Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22601-6_9
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