Social Processes in Clinical and Counseling Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781461387305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 206 str.

James E. Maddux; Cal D. Stoltenberg; Robert Rosenwein

Opis

Even as psychology becomes increasingly splintered and specialized, as evi- denced by the growing number of special interest divisions of the American Psy- chological Association, many psychologists are devoting their energies to finding commonalities between traditionally distinct fields and building bridges between them. Developmental psychopathology, for example, has emerged as a synthesis of child development theory and clinical child psychology. Health psychology has resulted from the cooperation and collaboration of many psychologists from a number of fields, including clinical, counseling, social, developmental, and physiological. Within clinical psychology is a growing movement toward "rap- prochement" that is dedicated to finding common themes among seemingly dis- parate approaches to psychotherapy. Thus, integration among different fields has increased even as diversity in psychology has flourished. One such integration or interfacing effort that is related in several ways to the integrative efforts just noted involves social, clinical, and counseling psychology. Although this effort is not a new one (see chapter 1), it was given a new lease on life by the publication of the first issue ofthe Journal of Social and Clinical Psy- chology in 1983. Since that time, several volumes and numerous journal article and book chapters have been devoted to the general notion that social psychologi- cal theory and research has much to offer clinical and counseling psychology, such as greater understanding of psychological and everyday problems in living and insight into clinical and counseling activities such as psychotherapy.

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1. Social Processes in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: Introduction and Orienting Assumptions.- The Integration of Social, Clinical, and Counseling Psychology: Recent Trends.- Research and Clinical Practice: Three Common Myths.- Social Processes in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: Orienting Assumptions.- Domains of the Social-Clinical-Counseling Interface.- Concluding Comments.- 2. Research Issues at the Social, Clinical, and Counseling Psychology Interface.- Historical Methodological Forces.- Social Psychology as an Experimental Science.- Internal and External Validity.- The Slippery Slope: Generalization of Results.- The Firm Ground: Generalizing Conclusions.- “Ya Gotta Know the Territory”.- 3. Social Support and Clinical Practice.- Psychotherapy as a Form of Social Support.- Social Support as a Goal of Psychotherapy.- Communal Social Support: The Ties That Bind.- Social Support for the Therapist Too.- 4. Self-Efficacy Theory and Research: Applications in Clinical and Counseling Psychology.- Basic Tenets of Self-Efficacy Theory.- Clinical Applications of Self-Efficacy Theory.- Issues in Self-Efficacy Theory.- 5. Counseling and Persuasion: Extrapolating the Elaboration Likelihood Model.- The Routes to Persuasion.- Motivation and Ability.- Client Resistance.- The Role of Affect.- Client Variables.- The Nature of Cognitive Processing.- Counselor Credibility.- Conclusion and Future Directions.- 6. Interpersonal Change Processes in Therapeutic Interactions.- How Behavior Change Is Generated in Conversations.- What Behavior Is Changed in Therapeutic Conversations.- Classification and Interpersonal Functions of Self-Presentations.- Empirical Studies of Self-Presentation in Therapy.- Therapeutic Interactions.- The Artful Dance of Therapy.- 7. A Social Influence Approach to Counselor Supervision.- The Social Influence Point of View.- The Conceptualization.- Supervisor’s Social Power.- Trainee Need.- Conclusion.- 8. Depression, Nondepression, and Social Comparison Biases.- Cognitive Theories of Depression.- Social Comparison Processes and Biases.- Depression and Realism in Self-Perception.- The Self-Other Distinction and Social Comparison Biases.- Origins of Biases in Social Comparison Processes.- Depression and Social Comparison Processes: Cause or Consequence?.- Biases in Social Comparison: Differentiating Error, Irrationality, and Maladaptiveness.- Depression and Social Comparison Processes: Therapeutic Implications.- 9. Self-Handicapping and Psychopathology: An Integration of Social and Clinical Perspectives.- The Social Psychological Origins of Self-Handicapping Theory.- How Self-Handicapping Exploits Attributional Principles.- Why Success Motivates “Defensive” Self-Handicapping Behavior.- Career Self-Handicapping: A Psychological Disorder.- Therapeutic Implications of the Self-Handicapping Formulation.- 10. A Self-Presentational Model for the Treatment of Social Anxieties.- Treatment Models.- The Self-Presentational Theory.- Self-Presentational Motivation.- Perceived Self-Presentational Ability.- Client-Treatment Matching.- Summary.- 11. Self-Perception Theory and Heterosocial Anxiety.- Development of the Treatment.- Empirical Support.- Positive Features and Limitations.- Integration with Social Psychology Theory and Research.- Integration with Clinical-Counseling Theory and Research.- Future Directions for Theory and Research.- 12. An Attributional Approach to Marital Dysfunction and Therapy.- Attribution Theories and Research in the Marital Area.- Clinical Implications.- Research on Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy.- Clinical Cautions.- 13. Processes in Rehabilitation: A Social Psychological Analysis.- The Chronic Pain Patient: From Disability to Stigma.- The Chronic Pain Patient: Self-Stigmatization.- Chronic Low Back Pain Rehabilitation.- The Process of Rehabilitation.- Implications for Research and Clinical Practice.- 14. Future Directions.- Increasing Collaboration Among Social, Counseling, and Clinical Psychologists.- Barriers to the Interface.- Where Do We Go From Here?.- Author Index.