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Summary: Therapeutic Mutual Aid Factors
Therapeutic Mutual Aid Factors
“The group is an enterprise in mutual aid, an alliance of individuals who need each other, in varying degrees, to work on certain common problems” (Shulman, 2012 p. 343). the group was able to experience mutual aid. In the fifth session members hoped to learn more about job interviews so, RP share information about that. They had the opportunity to give each other feedback. It seemed that members had some level of cohesiveness during the three last sessions even; in the fifth one that was only about interview tips. Members still have the opportunity to show MG empathy when she shared a personal issue. That issue was a taboo topic in all members’ culture; abuse is still one hidden topic in our modern era in Mexican
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