Ayers T D
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1989 Apr;59(2):215-25. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1989.tb01653.x.
A conceptual framework for research on lay helping strategies is presented, differentiating the strategies along two dimensions: their focus, individual or interpersonal, and their source, natural or supplemental. A typology of characteristics of commonly used lay helping methods is proposed, and implications for intervention design and research are discussed.