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How will it help you?
There is good evidence that reading self help books can help specifically with most emotional difficulties. The beneficial effects can be experienced as soon as you start reading the book. You will also find that you are not the only person with this difficulty.
Self help books are about helping you to gain a new perspective and are only effective when you are motivated to reflect on your own behaviour and make these changes.
Most of the books are straightforward to read, containing useful exercises and questionnaires for you to follow.
They have been specially selected and read by student counselling staff for their accessible and helpful approaches. This could be seen as a starting point as different approaches will suit different people.
This article was published on Jul 23, 2010