what do you think or mean by self help?

Answer 1

By posting this question in Law & Ethids, I presume you are looking for a legal definition. In the law, self help usually refers to taking matters into your own hands to avoid going through proper legal channels.

Suppose you were a landlord with a tenant who wasn't paying rent. Normally, you would file an eviction lawsuit and the local sheriff or constable would remove the nonpaying tenant after the court issued the necessary order. Self help would be illegally change the lock on the door while the tenant was at work.

Self help doesn't necessarily have to be illegal, but it depends on the facts of your situation.

Answer 2

When I try to figure out a problem by myself instead of seeking out professional help, "self help" would be the way I would do it. However, there are many so called "self help" books that a person can read. They are written by professionals, so when you read a "self help" book, aren't you really getting help from others anyway??

Answer 3

Self help is a way to make you feel better or improve yourself. By improve, I mean make yourself look better in the eyes of others and maybe get more money.

Answer 4

Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the "self-help" book. Sometimes writers refer to a "self-help movement", though exactly what this is taken to be is not clear.
The concept of self-help has also found purchase, however, in more and in wider circles. In merchandising, tendencies toward self-help have in recent years resulted in automated self-check-out payment-systems. Self-help fuel-pumps replaced full-service petroleum pumps in the United States and the UK in the late 20th Century, whilst in Japan self service remains rarer.

There are self help groups for addictions world wide as has been studied in a limited way by Keith Humphreys. Self help in health treatment is a viable and affordable alternative for professional services but works best in partnership with professionals as Humphrey concludes. Often judges will order those caught drinking and driving to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. Stanton Peele says this turns voluntary self help to forced treatment.

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.

Legal self-help preceded the emergence of self-help in other areas. For many people from the 18th century onwards, self-help became a way of saving costs in legal situations, with self-help publications available to help with routine legal matters from filing wills to domestic processes to recording property deeds.

...all the best.

Answer 5

by solving your own problems by yourself...such as getting over a bad habit. Instead of going to a doctor, a person might try reading "self-help" books or videos perhaps, and they eventually succeed. I think it takes a very strong-willed person to be able to accomplish this.

Answer 6

helping your self by your self

do it your self

Answer 7

helping others and helping yourself

Answer 8

when you help youself?!