Self-help book

A nonfiction book offering advice, methods, or exercises intended to help people address personal challenges or improve aspects of their lives.

Self-help: The practice of using personal effort and resources to address problems or pursue improvement. The broader practice that self-help books seek to support.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen R. Covey's 1989 book presenting seven principles for personal and interpersonal effectiveness. It exemplifies the self-help book built around a named, sequential framework.
Psychotherapy: The treatment of psychological difficulties through structured conversations or other psychological methods. Unlike a book, psychotherapy can tailor treatment to an individual's needs and responses.
Self-help industry: The commercial market for products and services promising personal development or problem-solving. Book sales form a major part of this wider market.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: A structured psychotherapy that targets patterns of thought and behavior to change emotional difficulties. Many books adapt its techniques, such as examining thoughts and testing new behaviors.
Atomic Habits: James Clear's 2018 book about building useful habits and changing behavior through small, repeated actions. It shows how habit research can be packaged as a practical self-guided system.
Self-help group: A group in which members facing similar problems support one another through shared experience. It offers mutual support and interaction rather than guidance primarily through a text.
Samuel Smiles: A Scottish author whose 1859 book Self-Help helped popularize the term and the ideal of self-improvement. His book helped establish self-help as a recognizable publishing subject.
Habit: A behavior that becomes automatic through repetition in a recurring context. Habit formation is a common target and method in practical self-improvement books.
How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie's 1936 book offering advice on communication, relationships, and influencing others. It is a canonical example of self-help aimed at social skills and professional life.

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