Abstract
Recent advances in delineating basic cognitive and social cognitive processes may hold great promise for furthering our understanding of important clinical issues, in particular theories of psychopathology, theories of therapeutic change, and theories of clinical inference. In this article, the role of knowledge structures (including schemata), processing heuristics, biases, and products are explored with particular emphasis on their potential role in the clinical change process. Therapies which are explicitly metacognitive in nature are seen as frequently, but not invariably, most closely approximating the active intervention components most likely to produce alterations in important mechanisms mediating change. Suggestions for refinements in both clinical practice and clinical research are offered.
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