Menstuff® has information on Self-Help.
The basis for self-help is often self-reliance, publicly available
information, or support groups where people with similar problems
join together. From early exemplars in self-driven legal practice and
home-spun advice, the connotations of the phrase have spread and
often apply particularly to education, business, psychological or
psychotherapeutic nostrums, purveyed through the popular genre of
self-help books and through self-help personal-development movements.
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, potential benefits of
self help groups that professionals may not be able to provide
include friendship, emotional support, experiential knowledge,
identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging. Any health
condition can find a self help method or group such as parents of the
mentally ill. But there are limits and these methods do not work for
everyone. As well as experienced long time members sharing
experiences with a similar practical problem such as finances of a
health problem, these health groups can become lobby groups and
educational material clearing houses. Those who help themselves by
learning about health problems are helping themselves through self
help. But self help in this context is often really peer-to-peer
support.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-help
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