TY  - JOUR
TI  - Psychotherapy and social support - Integrating research on psychological helping
Y1  - 2002/04//
VL  - 22
EP  -  379
KW  - social support
KW  -  informal helping
KW  -  psychotherapy research
KW  -  process research
KW  -  common factors
KW  -  EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
KW  -  UNITED-STATES
KW  -  HELPFUL
KW  -  EMPATHY
KW  -  EVENTS
KW  -  CARE
KW  -  COMMUNICATION
KW  -  DEPRESSION
KW  -  MANAGEMENT
KW  -  THERAPISTS
A1  - Barker, C
A1  - Pistrang, N
IS  - 3
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2297/
ID  - discovery2297
PB  - PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
JF  - CLIN PSYCHOL REV
SP  - 361 
N2  - Psychotherapy interactions and social support conversations have many similarities, as well as some important differences. Researchers studying these two manifestations of psychological helping - often known as formal and informal helping - usually apply a separate set of concepts and methods to each and tend to locate their work in separate bodies of literature. This paper argues that such a division of the field is unnecessary and unproductive. It outlines several ways in which the two bodies of literature might inform each other and argues for conceptual integration of the two fields. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
SN  - 0272-7358
AV  - public
ER  -