Society program strengthens MS self-help groups. From: Inside MS | Date: June 22, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It's an ingeniously simple idea: a group of people with similar problems meets regularly to talk about how they can help themselves. When it works well, a group is a haven where members can be frank about their frustrations and a forum where people share hard-won skills. Every chapter of the Society has a network of affiliated self-help groups.

Good self-help groups are powerful medicine. But poor ones bog down. What if the best MS self-help groups across the country shared the practices that keep them healthy and effective?

Assisted by Society staff, a task force from ...

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