2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Practical Research on How Self-Help Groups Leaders could be Supported and How Successors could be Trained as a Deserved Leader.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21530623
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Social welfare and social work studies
Research Institution	Bukkyo University
Principal Investigator	NAKADA Chiemi 佛教大学, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (80259473)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	セルフヘルプグループ / エンパワメント / ピアサポート
Research Abstract	Accessibility to helping and coping with the task are often pointed out to be the nature of Self-Help Groups. According to the interview research, however, the leaders are exhausted by those nature. On the other hand, a peer support and sharing emotions are main factors of development of SHG. So, the author wrote the textbook on how to do on peer support and practicing them to some leaders. As a result, some SHGs continue good activities to be the model.

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