self-help groups
Peer recovery meetings
Self-help groups are peer-led gatherings where people with shared challenges meet to provide mutual support.
Members offer each other advice, encouragement, and accountability—whether for addiction recovery, grief, chronic illness, or personal growth.
Alcoholics Anonymous is the prototype: She found a self-help group for new mothers.
Distinguished from therapy groups by the absence of professional facilitation.
- twelve-stepAddiction recovery framework
- addiction recoveryOvercoming substance dependence
- rock bottomLowest possible level
- peer supportAid from similar others
- mental health supportAid for emotional wellness
fellowship · sobriety · women's empowerment · higher power · mutual aid · sharing circle · anonymity · relapse prevention · abstinence · sober living · safe space · stress management · chip · grief counseling · AA · one day at a time · spiritual awakening · mindfulness practice
- support groupssupport groups, peer support, recovery meetings, sharing circle, recovery meeting
- Support Networkssupport networks, peer support, social workers, counselors, therapists
- group therapyhealing circles, sharing circles, peer support, facilitator, recovery groups
- mutual aidteamwork, helping, sharing, lending, cooperation
- peer supportpeer counseling, peer mentors, peer counselors, support networks, sponsors
- microfinancemicrocredit, small loans, microloan, microloans, loan officers
self-help groupspsychotherapy
Treatment through guided conversation
clinical treatment · psychiatric care · inpatient treatment · medical intervention · institutional care
self-help groupsgoing it alone
Acting independently, unassisted
social isolation · self-reliance · isolation · rugged individualism · withdrawal
self-help groupscourt-ordered treatment
Legally mandated rehabilitation program
involuntary commitment · compulsory treatment · institutionalization · state intervention · incarceration