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Psychotherapy in everyday life / Ole Dreier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreier, Ole.
- Series:
- Learning in doing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapy.
- Family Relations.
- Patient Compliance.
- Patients--psychology.
- Social Adjustment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychotherapy.
- Family Relations.
- Patient Compliance.
- Patients--psychology.
- Social Adjustment.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 333 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Psychotherapy in Everyday Life details how clients make therapy work in their everyday lives by using what they learned in private sessions. Therapy cannot fulfill its purpose until clients can make it work outside the therapy room in relation to the concerns, people, and places of their everyday lives. Research on therapy has largely ignored these efforts. Based on session transcripts and interviews with a family of four about their everyday lives, this book shows the extensive and varied work that clients do to make their therapy work across places. Processes of change and learning are seen in a new perspective, and it is shown that expert practices depend on how persons conduct their everyday lives. To grasp this, Ole Dreier developed a theory of persons that is based on how people conduct their lives in social practice. This theory is grounded in critical psychology and social practice theory and is also relevant for understanding other expert practices such as education.
- Contents:
- Re-searching psychotherapy as a social practice
- Theorizing persons in structures of social practice
- A study
- its design and conduct
- Clients' ordinary lives plus sessions
- Therapy in clients' social practice across places
- Changes in clients' practice across places
- Changing problems across places
- The conduct of everyday life and the life
- The children's changing conducts of everyday life
- The parents' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories
- The changing conduct of everyday family life and family trajectory
- Research in social practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0521706130
- 9780521880176
- 0521880173
- 9780521706131
- OCLC:
- 122424398
- Publisher Number:
- 99945664396
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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