Self-help groups for family survivors of suicide in Japan: For empowerment, not grief care.
(Tomofumi Oka, Sachiko Tanaka, Hidehiko Ake, & Shôko Kuwabara). Poster session presented at the 21st Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference, Tokyo, July 15-18, 2011. Translated leaflets of self-help groups (Ai-no-kai, Mizube-no-tsudoi, Shimane Wakachiai-no-kai "Niji")
"New Life": Study of a Japanese self-help group for alcoholics. (Tomofumi Oka, & Richard Chenhall).
Poster session presented at the 2011 Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference, Chicago on June 16-19, 2011.
Poster(PDF)
Action research for developing a worldview of self-help groups of the family survivors of suicide in Japan. Poster session presented at the fist European Conference for Social Work Research, St Catherine's College, Oxford, England on March 23-25, 2011, Poster(PDF), Handout(PDF)
An ethnographic study on the anti-professionalism of self-help groups for family survivors of suicide in Japan. Poster(PDF), Poser sessioni presented at Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey on July 7-10, 2010
Do members of self-help groups in Japan consider the medicalisation of their problems and conditions to have liberated them or pathologised them? Three case studies
(Tomofumi Oka, & Mikihiro Hayashi). Paper presented at 2010 Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development: The Agenda at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, on 10-14 June 2010. PDF
Three developmental models of self-help groups for alcoholics: The Western "recovery", the Japanese "ripening" model, and the Aboriginal "decolonizing" models. (Tomofumi Oka, & Richard D. Chenhall). Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, on 17-20 February 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. PDF
Research on Self-Help Organisations in Japan: Working with a Sense of Duty (giri). (Tomofumi Oka & Richard Chenhall). Paper presented at ISTR 8th International Conference, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, on July 9-12, 2008.
Different things under the same name? A research dialogue on self-help organisations between a Japanese social worker and an Australian anthropologist. (Tomofumi Oka & Richard Chenhall, 2007). Sophia University Studies in Social Services, 31, 39-64. PDF, HTML (English), HTML (Japanese abstract)
Leader's Narratives of Organizational Issues in US and Japanese Self-Help Groups (Tomofumi Oka and Thomasina Borkman, 2006). Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, on December 10-16, 2006.
Participatory Action Research with Self-Help Groups in the US and Japan (Thomasina Borkman and Tomofumi Oka, 2005). Paper presented at Society for Community Research & Action 10th Biennial Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, on June 9-12, 2005. Download: Abstract.
Using Focus Groups to Identify the Management Problems of Self-Help Groups and Their Solutions (Tomofumi Oka, 1999). Paper presented at Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference in Edmonton, Canada on February 18-20, 1999. Presentation
Self-Help Groups in Japan: Trends and Traditions. (Tomofumi Oka, 1997, original in 1994). Japanese Journal of Social Services, 1, 121-139
Japan. (Tomiko Hayashi and Tomofumi Oka, 1996). In J.Steyaet, D.Colombi, & J.Rafferty (Eds.). Human Services and Information Technology: An International Perspective (pp.163-172).Hants, England: Arena, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Selbsthilfe in Japan (Tomofumi Oka, 1993). In K.Balke & C Reis (Hrsg.) Selbsthilfegruppen-Unterstützung in Europa (pp.101-113). Frankfurt am Main: Eigenverlag des Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche und private Fürsorge.
The Concept of Self-Help Groups in Mental Health: Sharing, Independence, and Emancipation (Tomofumi Oka, 1993). Paper presented at 1993 World Congress: World Federation For Mental Health in Chiba, Japan on August 26, 1993. Paper.
Peer Group Supervision in Social Work Education. (Tomofumi Oka, 1991). In Asian-Pacific Region Social Work Education Association & Sociology Department of Peking University of China (Eds.). Status-quo, Challenge and Prospect: Collected Works of the Seminar of the Asian-Pacific Region Social Work Education. (pp.445-451). Beijing: Peking University Press.
Self-Help in Japan. (Tomofumi Oka, 1991). Paper presented at International Expert Meeting "Support for Self-Help Groups in Europe". in Frankfurt am Main on September 02-05, 1991.
Reports (August, 1988):
(1) How did we help a self-help organization for single fathers? A case study,
(2) The intergroup coordination: a relationship between a self-help group and a volunter group,
(3) A workshop for self-help groups in Osaka,
(4) What was brought to my mind after visiting Europe.