Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

It seems that just about everyone has read a self-help book, attended a support group or surfed online for health information at one time or another. Thousands of new self-help books are published ...

If America's favorite pastimes are sex and baseball, self-help groups mightrun a close third. So it's a bit of a surprise to learn that such an American institution owes its existence to a Viennese ...

This study shows a positive relationship between participation in 12-Step-based self-help groups and desired treatment results. A regression analysis of the background variables is unable to explain ...