Publisher's Synopsis
There is currently growing interest amongst health professionals and the public in the greater involvement of people in their own care. The self-help movement is a practical example of people coming together to share experiences and information and to overcome common problems. There are now self-help groups for almost every imaginable condition. General practitioners and other members of the primary care team are seeing self-help groups as an indispensable resource, both as a source of practical help and advice for patients and as a supplier of leaflets and other patient information literature. The Self-Help Guide provides a useful reference source for both the office and the briefcase.;The book also gives the background to the involvement of self-help and patient organizations in primary care, goes on to give advice on building up a basic collection of free or cheaply priced self-help literature, and suggests further sources of information particularly on a local basis.;This book should be of interest to general practitioners, citizens' advice bureaux, nurses, social workers.
