2008 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 49-64
It is necessary to study the specialists and non-specialists supporting “Hikikomori” from the aspect of the collaboration. There are a lot of “Hikikomori” persons who participate self-help group (SHG) in the community. However, there is no theory about the collaboration for community psychologists and the SHG representatives, who are both supporters and members receiving the support. This is the process study concerning “representatives’ group” of SGs and SHGs in the community. Considering representatives who are both supporters and members, the necessity of community psychologists delivering one-way “support” and interactive “collaboration” has been discussed. For example, the terms of “Consultation to management”, “Acceptance, empathy, and supportive involvement”, “Opinion exchange about management”, and “Representatives’ self-help” have been applied. Also, the structure of representatives’ group has been compared with that of the traditional clinical psychology and SHG. It was understood that characters of representatives’ group were the understanding of the relation to SHG representatives; the almost fixation of time and place; the clarification of purpose and method; and the safety through the group structure and the consciousness of the collaboration.
