The thousands of little crisis books have not shown the general population that psychology is helpful in every life every day. Our limited systems for distributing useful knowledge to everyone are lousy because they are, thus far, primarily devoted to entertainment and selling products. Schools, families, and churches don't support self-help instruction. In short, our society does little to encourage and help us to self-improve. Your belief in using knowledge derived from science to control and change your life will gradually influence other people's attitudes.
Psychological coping is like health, everyone has to work on it.
And, in both areas, science is finding more and more ways to improve our bodies and our personal-interpersonal adjustment. Once you think of an idea, like germs or evolution or genetics or self-help, you can't unthink it. Practical, useful psychology will eventually be taught to everyone so that we all can cope better with problems, suffer less, love more fully, and contribute more to others. Comprehensive psycho-social education is not an impossible dream, but it involves major changes which no one can foresee today. We only see the problems clearly now, e.g. most people would agree that the most important part of growing up is developing character .