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  2. Support group - Wikipedia

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    Support group. In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community.

  3. Peer support - Wikipedia

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    Peer support can occur within, outside or around traditional mental health services and programs, between two people or in groups. Peer support is increasingly being offered through digital health like text messaging and smartphone apps. Peer support is a key concept in the recovery approach and in consumer-operated services programs.

  4. Self-help groups for mental health - Wikipedia

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    Types Mutual support and self-help. Mutual support or peer support is a process by which people voluntarily come together to help each other address common problems. Mutual support is social, emotional or instrumental support that is mutually offered or provided by persons with similar mental health conditions where there is some mutual agreement on what is helpful.

  5. Support (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    then ⁡ (), the support of , or the closed support of , is the closed interval [,], since is non-zero on the open interval (,) and the closure of this set is [,].. The notion of closed support is usually applied to continuous functions, but the definition makes sense for arbitrary real or complex-valued functions on a topological space, and some authors do not require that : (or :) be continuous.

  6. Social support - Wikipedia

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    Social support. Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network. These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance), informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging); tangible ...

  7. Peer group - Wikipedia

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    Peer group. Early childhood peers engaged in parallel play. In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests ( homophily ), age, background, or social status. The members of this group are likely to influence the person's beliefs and behaviour.

  8. Employee resource group - Wikipedia

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    Employee resource groups (also known as ERGs, affinity groups, business network groups, or business resource groups [1]) are groups of employees who join in their workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences. [2] ERGs are generally based on providing support, enhancing career development, and contributing to personal ...

  9. Mental health - Wikipedia

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    Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [7] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [8] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [9] which are ...