Description
Book SynopsisThis book shines important light on processes of personal change and learning in practice, launching a new theoretical approach to personhood. Drier offers an understanding of the workings of therapy and a rich set of findings for research invaluable for graduates and practitioners in psychology, education, counseling and sociology.
Trade Review'… the book is provocative. The important thing is what it provokes, which is consideration of what therapy means to clients when they're back home. Dreier's work is recommended for anyone interested in addressing this important question.' Theory and Psychology
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.
