Cancer and Self-Help Bridging the Troubled Waters of Childhood Illness

Cancer and Self-Help distills the experiences of more than fifty self-help groups and their members over twelve years. It also places cancer self-help groups in a larger context, comparing them to other social movement organizations and to other strategies for personal coping or change. The book includes the voices of individual parents and professionals recounting their experiences; detailed examples of group activities, programs, operating procedures, and organizational structures; fundamental, how-to-information on forming a self-help group; comments on the roles and dilemmas of health care professionals in these groups and on the medical care system as a whole; and interpretations of these individual and organizational dynamics.Chesler, Mark A. is the author of 'Cancer and Self-Help Bridging the Troubled Waters of Childhood Illness' with ISBN 9780299148249 and ISBN 0299148246.