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.