From mutual-aid self-help to professional service.
Some mutual-aid self-help organizations develop into professional-bureaucratic human service organizations. The process of transforming them involves important changes in functions. Social workers who become part of the process can learn to work efficiently despite its tensions.
D012657:Self-Help Groups / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States