In another, a stereo system bombards a child with upbeat self-help advice, advertising "motivational speakers."

He uttered what turned out to be prophecy as much as self-help advice when he said, "By not confronting problems early you end up making things worse."

The Cosmo available in Shanghai is decidedly more demure than its American parent, with plenty of self-help advice and fashion but none of the sexual how-to guides.

And if it sounds as if the course (like the book) must be full of self-help advice for engineers, that is partly true.

Like Sarah McLachlan and Natalie Merchant, she sings folk-rock songs in which longing and romantic struggles meet self-help advice.

To a public that consumes quantities of confessional entertainment and self-help advice, Clinton's turmoil seems not bizarre, but familiar.

The wide array of research articles, videos and seminars that can be found on the foundation's website and PsychAlive.org, hold useful information to anyone interested in finding self-help advice on these topics.

Jimmy Eat World's songs switch between self-help advice and mixed emotions, mirrored in song structures that knock together idioms, like major-key punk-pop colliding with grunge.

His recent songs, most of them with lyrics by Will Jennings, proffer hope and self-help advice, urging listeners to roll with the bad times and seize the good ones.

Whether he was singing about loneliness (in "Don't Pass Me By" and "Photograph") or giving self-help advice (in "Back Off Boogaloo"), he didn't get overwrought.