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 -