Exploring Help-Seeking Behaviors: Overcoming the Barrier of Asking for Help

This presentation delves into the dynamics of seeking and giving help, emphasizing the importance of overcoming the reluctance to ask for assistance. It highlights the benefits of being helpful, explores the reasons behind hesitance to seek help, and provides practical tips on enhancing one's help-seeking skills. By normalizing the act of asking for help and providing strategies to make requests effectively, the session aims to promote a supportive and collaborative environment for individuals to seek the assistance they need.

• Help-seeking
• Overcoming barriers
• Asking for help
• Supportive environment
• Human relations

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1. Help! Student Health and Human Services Office of Human Relations, Diversity & Equity

2. Welcome! What is something that you consider yourself to be very good at?

3. Explore help seeking and help giving behaviors Reflect on your own ideas about asking for help Objectives Learn best practices for asking for help Discuss how to be a helper

4. People are hard-wired to be helpful Helping others may boost Mood Self-Esteem Sense of Belonging

5. Share about the last time you helped someone. Reflection

6. Asking for help: not human nature People are hardwired to want to do things on their own to be independent minded. There are many reasons why asking for help makes people feel uneasy I don t want to be judged They might say "no" I get embarrassed.

7. Reflection Do you ever ask for help?

8. USE ALL YOUR STRENGTH

9. Why do you think the speaker continued to say "use all your strength?" Reflection

10. NORMALIZING ASKING FOR HELP

11. In person(34% more likely to get a "Yes") Best ways to ask for help Be specific Be direct Be positive Be understanding

12. What is something you could ask for help with? Reflection

13. Check out If you could be an expert at something, what would you want to be an expert at?

14. Human Relations, Diversity & Equity