What is Social Support?
Social support is essential for everyone, especially when dealing with pain or challenges. Pain can heighten the sense of needing support, sometimes leaving you feeling as though you require more than your fair share or more than your family, friends, or colleagues can provide. Simultaneously, you might find that the support offered doesn’t always meet your needs or sometimes leaves you feeling worse rather than better.
Types of Support
Effective emotion-focused support aims to create a positive emotional impact. It should leave you feeling loved, appreciated, understood, validated, safe, included, or needed. This type of support can help you feel stronger, more grounded, renewed, and confident—ready to move forward and take on life’s challenges. Examples of emotion-focused support include actively listening, showing genuine concern and interest, offering physical affection like a hug or a kiss, following up on a previous conversation, and demonstrating understanding of your emotional state or needs.
Social Support Case Studies
This activity will help you to understand the different forms of social support and to consider the ways in which support can be helpful and, at times, not helpful.
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