Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life shows how clients employ therapy in their daily lives. The varied and extensive efforts involved in this are systematically overlooked in therapy research. The book shines important new light on processes of personal change and learning in practice. More generally speaking, it launches a theory of personhood based on how persons conduct their everyday lives in social practice. This approach and many of the book’s findings are of immediate relevance for understanding other fields of expert practice.
- Builds on an extensive family of four case study, grounding the book's argument in concrete lives
- Includes a socio-cultural appoach making it unique in that it studies people as they live their lives and change across places
- Shows the process of personal change and learning in practice, helping practitioners to reflect and change their practice
Reviews & endorsements
"...this book shows the extensive and varied work clients do to make their therapy work across places...."
--Family Therapy
Product details
November 2007Paperback
9780521706131
350 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.472kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Researching psychotherapy as a social practice
- 2. Theorizing persons in structures of social practice
- 3. A study: its design and conduct
- 4. Clients' ordinary lives plus sessions
- 5. Therapy in clients' social practice across places
- 6. Changes in clients' practice across places
- 7. Changing problems across places
- 8. The conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory
- 9. The childrens' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories
- 10. The parents' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories
- 11. The changing conduct of everyday family life and family trajectory
- 12. Research in social practice.
