scholarly journals From Communities of Practice to Epistemic Communities: Health Mobilizations on the Internet

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Akrich
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Activist Groups

This paper describes the emergence of new activist groups in the health sector, spinning off from internet discussion groups. In the first part, it shows how self-help discussion groups can be considered as communities of practice in which, partly thanks to the Internet media, collective learning activities result in the constitution of experiencial knowledge, the appropriation of exogenous sources of knowledge, including medical knoweldge and the articulation of these different sources of knowledge in some lay expertise. In the second part, it describes how activist groups might emerge from these discussion groups and develop specific modes of action drawing upon the forms of expertise constituted through the Internet groups. Activists groups together with self-help groups might form epistemic communities ( HAAS 1992 ), i.e. groups of experts engaged in a policy enterprise in which knowledge plays a major role : in the confrontation of health activists with professionals, the capacity to translate political claims into the langage of science appears as a condition to be (even) heard and be taken into consideration.

scholarly journals Management of chronic fatigue syndrome in children

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Wright ◽  
Ian Partridge ◽  
Christine Williams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Based Medicine

Certain areas of child and adolescent mental health generate a degree of polarised debate, both within and outside the profession. Media attention, the development of self-help groups and the Internet lead to the publishing of papers and opinion, which exist alongside peer-reviewed research and evidence-based medicine. Parents reading such material may find it hard to know what advice is best. One area that falls into this category is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

scholarly journals Language toward Change in Virtual Self-Help Groups Predicts the Abstinence of Problem Gamblers: Automatic Change Talk Classifier (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Yokotani
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Options ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Problem Gamblers ◽  
Change Talk ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
Virtual Meetings ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Risk Of Relapse

BACKGROUND Although participation in physical meetings has been shown to be effective in reducing the risk of relapse in gambling, the effects of participating in virtual meetings have rarely been reported. OBJECTIVE The present study aims to determine the effectiveness of virtual meetings for problem gamblers. METHODS Participants were 2,828 gamblers participating in the 99 virtual meetings; 360 had stopped gambling for more than three years (abstinent gamblers) and the other 2,468 had not yet stopped gambling (non-abstinent gamblers). Their 1,665,620 utterances were encoded by the automatic change talk classifier. RESULTS The abstinent gamblers participated in the meetings longer than non-abstinent gamblers (t = 8.26, P < .001). They had more change talks than non-abstinent gamblers (t = 6.46, P < .001). The classifier also showed the optimal treatment options responding to minute changes in their participation and utterances in the meetings. CONCLUSIONS Virtual meetings are effective for gamblers. Treatment via the Internet increases the generalizability of treatment because of the size and variety of the data.

scholarly journals CommonSpaces: an approach to web learning based on OERs, mentoring and collaborative learning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Ritella ◽  
Stefano Lariccia ◽  
Marco Montanari ◽  
Donatella Cesareni ◽  
Giovanni Toffoli
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Web Learning

Currently, the internet is full of freely accessible resources (i.e. OERs) that can provide excellent learning opportunities. However, these resources are usually not well organized, and for many users it is often difficult to use these dispersed sources of knowledge in a coordinated way. The project CommonS aims at building a space - called CommonSpaces -  dedicated to communities of practice in which participants learn through the cataloguing, re-use, adaptation and sequencing of OERs into so-called learning path.We define a Learning Path as an organized set of interconnected OERs (aggregated and created by communities of users) that can be created by users both to organize their learning experience and to provide consistent learning sequences for others. In this paper, we briefly present the rationale and the foundational concept of the project. Then we discuss the features of CommonSpaces in its first prototype version  and describe the preliminary findings from a pioneering experience of collaborative learning carried out by means of CommonSpaces. We conclude discussing the ongoing collective modeling of the final version of CommonSpaces and its future directions.

Introduction to the Forum on Cluttering: Rays of Hope Shine Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1567
Author(s):  
Isabella Reichel
Keyword(s):  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Feedback Training ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Attention Performance ◽  
Self Help Groups

Purpose In the 10 years since the International Cluttering Association (ICA) was created, this organization has been growing in the scope of its initiatives, and in the variety of resources it makes available for people with cluttering (PWC). However, the awareness of this disorder and of the methods for its intervention remain limited in countries around the world. A celebration of the multinational and multicultural engagements of the ICA's Committee of the International Representatives is a common thread running through all the articles in this forum. The first article is a joint effort among international representatives from five continents and 15 countries, exploring various themes related to cluttering, such as awareness, research, professional preparation, intervention, and self-help groups. The second article, by Elizabeth Gosselin and David Ward, investigates attention performance in PWC. In the third article, Yvonne van Zaalen and Isabella Reichel explain how audiovisual feedback training can improve the monitoring skills of PWC, with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication. In the final article, Hilda Sønsterud examines whether the working alliance between the client and clinician may predict a successful cluttering therapy outcome. Conclusions Authors of this forum exchanged their expertise, creativity, and passion with the goal of solving the mystery of the disconcerting cluttering disorder with the hope that all PWC around the globe will have access to the most effective evidence-based treatments leading to blissful and successful communication.

Developing Approaches to Self-Help Groups

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 635-636
Author(s):  
Nathan Hurvitz
Keyword(s):  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups

Self-Help Groups and the Professional

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Riessman ◽  
Alan Gartner
Keyword(s):  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups
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