What are the benefits are there of it being
a self help site?
Self Help, can really be an enabling kind
of experience, because what this site does,
is puts the person who enters it
in charge of getting the information he or
she needs.
So, you can elect to read any article, you
can decide that you want to look at a video,
you can onto the Talk it Out forum if you
want.
So you are deciding what is going to be helpful
to you.
You're deciding, and you are doing your own
journey all the way through.
You're towering it, and there is something
about that, that really makes you feel, A,
that you are in charge of something
but also that you have mastered some process
and got the information that really you need,
not somebody else saying
'Do it this way'
Who is most likely to benefit from that approach?
Well I think the great value of having a self
help site, is that you have the service that
comes to you, and so you have
to think who would that be, who might that
be most useful for?
And one answer to that is people who have
trouble finding resources outside, and there
are particular groups that seem to be, that
seem to have that.
One is new parents, partly because you don't
think that's something you need help for,
and we don't have street corner
advice gurus for new parents, we don't have
that kind of naturally occurring expertise
sites for them outside.
Here's one that is in your house, that is
available all the time, so that's one, that's
one group.
Another group is parents with children with
disabilities,
To have information, or a sense of other people
going through the same thing, or getting tips
on how you might go forward to
making plans to manage the disability as it
happens in your family life,is invaluable
to have it right there.
The other group that curiously might really
benefit from having a self help site, is men,
because men, the research that Oneplusone
did is, showed
that men particularly like the internet, and
also particularly like the fact that it is
anonymous and confidential.
So not only is it
right there, but also nobody has to know that
you've used it or that there is anyway you
were mocked by doing this.
So in those senses
it's particularly useful for that, for those
groups.
But it is also useful for anyone else who
would want the information at hand,
right there.
Can we trust the material that is on this
site?
One of the things that marks Oneplusone as
the leading relationship research organisation
in this country is that it is
particularly keen on gartering research that
is evidence based, so nothing that Oneplusone
puts out there is not in a sense, expert
checked, and done with the kind of integrity
that you would expect of any good research.
So that is what informs all of the
information, and the structuring, of this
site.
