| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research was to discuss how self-help groups have developed or renovated their worldviews to help solve their life issues in a medicalised society. A comparative case study of groups for alcoholics and those for family survivors of suicide was conducted. Previous studies have explored the worldviews of both these groups using a dichotomy between professionals’ frameworks and those of peers, and many scholars believed that the worldviews of self-help groups were developed by accumulating experiential knowledge. However, this research has made it clear that the dichotomy does not reflect the reality. The alcoholics’ and survivors’ worldviews have been developed under a complicated combination of influence of three factors: supporting professionals, prevailing pseudo-science and pop-psychology discourses, and persisting indigenous and traditional cultures.
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