Glossary
Social support (practical)
What is practical social support?
Practical social support means arranging, advising on, or providing tangible help from another person to make a behavior possible or easier.
Example
A parent wants to exercise but has no childcare. A neighbor offers to watch the child during an exercise session. The help addresses a practical obstacle that encouragement alone does not remove.
What defines the technique?
The support must relate to doing the behavior. Reassurance is a different category, and merely attending a group does not establish that practical help was provided.
The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy identifies this as technique 3.2.