Selbsthilfe

Also known as self-improvement

thumb|upright=1.3|A self-help group from Maharashtra, India, making a demonstration at a [[National Rural Livelihood Mission seminar held in Chandrapur]] Self-help or self-improvement is "a focus on self-guided, in contrast to professionally guided, efforts to cope with life problems" —economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.