Carol Munn-Giddings   Tomofumi Oka   Thomasina Borkman   Grace L. Chikoto   Jürgen Matzat   Rolando Montaño-Fraire   
The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations 1 393-416 2017年1月 [招待有り]
This chapter explores a type of formal volunteering, carried out in groups, by peers who share a problematic health, economic, or social condition or situation. Peers meet together in self-help/mutual aid groups (SH/MAGs) to alleviate or improve t...
Care, Loss, and the End of Life, edited by N. Hinerman & M. R. Sanders, Published by Brill 127-137 2016年 [査読有り]
“Making Peace with Grief through Indigenous Wisdom.” (Tomofumi Oka, 2016) In N. Hinerman & M. R. Sanders (Eds.), Care, Loss, and the End of Life (pp. 127-137). Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary View, edited by Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Tihana Kovač, and Grace Miller, Published by Brill 131-142 2016年 [査読有り]
“Survivor Spirituality versus Popular-Therapeutic Spirituality: Two Conflicting Approaches to Supporting Japanese Family Survivors of Suicide.” (Tomofumi Oka, 2016) Pp. 131-42 in Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary View, edited by Jennifer Mata-McM...
Tomofumi Oka   Richard Chenhall   
Chicago: 13th SCRA (Society for Community Research and Action) Biennial Conference 2011年6月16日 National-Louis University, Roosevelt University & Adler School of Professional Psychology
“New Life”: Study of a Japanese self-help group for alcoholics. (Tomofumi Oka, & Richard Chenhall, 2011). Poster presented at 13th SCRA (Society for Community Research and Action) Biennial Conference, June 16-19, Chicago.
St Catherine's College, Oxford, England: The First European Conference for Social Work Research 2011年3月23日
Action research for developing a worldview of self-help groups of the family survivors of suicide in Japan (Tomofumi Oka, 2011). Poster session presented at the first European Conference for Social Work Research, St Catherine's College, Oxford, En...
Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) 2010年7月7日 Kadir Has University
An ethnographic study on the anti-professionalism of self-help groups for family survivors of suicide in Japan (Tomofumi Oka, 2010). Poster presented at Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), ...
Tomofumi Oka   Mikihiro Hayashi   
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: 2010 Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development: The Agenda 2010年6月10日 the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), and the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
Do members of self-help groups in Japan consider the medicalisation of their problems and conditions to have liberated them or pathologized them? Three case studies (Tomofumi Oka, & Mikihiro Hayashi, 2010). Paper presented at 2010 Joint World Conf...
Tomofumi Oka   Richard D. Chenhall   
Albuquerque, New Mexico: 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research 2010年2月17日
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, 2010). Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting...