"This well-written text will enable scientists-practitioners to review the applications and limits of selected issues in self-efficacy. [...] Overall, the lucid, exuberant, and balanced presentations exemplify the necessary components of the construct under analysis." (Readings) "An excellent reference on self-efficacy theory and its applications in clinical, counseling, and health psychology [...] an important contribution to the literature." (Doody's Journal)

• I. Introduction.- 1 Self-Efficacy Theory: An Introduction.- II. Applications in Clinical Psychology.- 2 Self-Efficacy and Adjustment: Basic Principles and Issues.- 3 Self-Efficacy and Anxiety and Phobic Disorders.- 4 Self-Efficacy and Addictive Behaviors.- 5 Self-Efficacy and Depression.- III. Applications in Health Psychology.- 6 Self-Efficacy and Healthy Behavior: Prevention, Promotion, and Detection.- 7 Self-Efficacy and Recovery from Heart Attack: Implications for a Social-Cognitive Analysis of Exercise and Emotion.- 8 Self-Efficacy and the Physiological Stress Response.- IV. Other Applications.- 9 Self-Efficacy and Career Choice and Development.- 10 Self-Efficacy and Education and Instruction.- 11 Collective Efficacy.- V. Commentary.- 12 Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy: A Concluding Commentary.- 13 On Rectifying Conceptual Ecumemism.- 14 Looking for Common Ground: A Comment on Kirsch and Bandura.