Treatment of childhood memories: theory and practice.

Self-help and mutual help groups are defined and the status of the literature described and reviewed. Self-help groups are different from peer and nonprofessional services under the supervision of professionals. Controlled studies of mutual help groups may be neither possible nor desirable as the method of choice by which to understand the phenomena of interest. Other approaches to research, including worldly evaluations, and ways of construing self-help organizations, that is, as normative communities and political action organizations rather than as psychological treatments, are discussed, and suggestions for future research are presented.

Researching self-help/mutual aid groups and organizations: Many roads, one journey

Effect of dietary 2-mercaptoethanol on the life span, immune system, tumor incidence and lipid peroxidation damage in spleen lymphocytes of aging BC3F1 mice

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Reappraisal of Aids — Is the oxidation induced by the risk factors the primary cause?

The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in the perception of courtship abuse. Scenes of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of both female and male victims were depicted in written vignettes. Two-hundred-forty male and 240 female college undergraduates rated the vignettes in terms of nine dimensions, including typicality of the dating situations and the severity of abuse depicted. The results indicated that there were no significant differences between men's and women's ratings of the severity of abusive behaviors depicted in the female victim vignettes, regardless of the type of abuse. Women, however, rated the sexual abuse of a women against a man in the vignette as significantly more abusive than did the male raters. The study also investigated the impact of prior involvement with abuse and found no correlation with current perceptions of courtship abuse. Avenues for future research and implications for intervention are discussed.

Pennie M. Cohen

Papers

A Group Approach for Working with Families of the Elderly

Violence in the family: An act of loyalty?