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Epilepsy self-help groups: collaboration with professionals.

L D Borman·F L Pasquale·J Davies
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Two sequential cases of professional-self-help/mutual aid collaboration are described. The first was a federally funded demonstration project to develop epilepsy self-help groups in 15 cities. It involved a "mixed strategy" of national and local collaboration, where decision-making, and problem solving was vested in persons with epilepsy. The second related case was the "action learning workshop" that combined research with extension work. Knowledge about self-help group development and persons with epilepsy was advanced at the same time that a national network and alliance of epilepsy self-help groups was developed.

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L D Borman, F L Pasquale, J Davies. 1982. Epilepsy self-help groups: collaboration with professionals.. https://doi.org/10.1300/j293v01n03_11

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