Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Searching Psychotherapy as a Social Practice -- 1.1. The Received View in Research on Psychotherapy -- Technical Rationality -- Medical Model -- Institutional Epistemology -- Guild Innovationism -- Decontextualization -- 1.2. Process Studies in Sessions -- 1.3. Professional Centeredness and Desubjectification of Clients and Therapists -- 1.4. Client Perspectives in Sessions -- 1.5. Clients as Agents, Consumers, and Users -- 1.6. How Does Therapy Work across Places? -- 1.7. Assuming Identical Client Functioning in Sessions and Elsewhere -- 1.8. Looking beyond Sessions -- 1.9. Taking Professional Charge of the Everyday -- 1.10. Re-Searching Changing Therapeutic and Everyday Practices -- 2 Theorizing Persons in Structures of Social Practice -- 2.1. Theorizing Social Practice -- Conceptualizing Structures of Social Practice -- Social Contexts and the Structure of Social Practice -- Arrangements of Contextual Practices and of the Links between Them -- The Local Presence of Cross-Cutting Issues -- 2.2. Persons as Situated Participants in Social Practice -- Personal Locations and Perspectives -- Persons as Participants -- Personal Participation in Context -- Personal Positions and Concerns in Context -- Personal Abilities in Context -- Personal Reasons and Understandings in Context -- Personal Change and Conflicts in Context -- 2.3. Personal Trajectories in a Complex Social Practice -- Complexity and Diversity in Personal Social Practice -- Distributing, Linking, and Balancing Participation and Stakes in Social Practices -- Gathering, Adopting, and Pursuing Personal Stances -- The Mediation and Reach of Personal Activities across Contexts -- 3 A Study - Its Design and Conduct.

3.1. The Unit of Outpatient Child Psychiatry and the Project -- 3.2. The Interviews -- 3.3. Relations between the Interviews and the Ongoing Therapy -- 3.4. Studying the Everyday Lives of Persons Attending Therapy -- 3.5. The Chosen Case and Its Therapy -- 4 Clients' Ordinary Lives Plus Sessions -- 4.1. Getting Outside Help -- 4.2. Having Problems -- 4.3. Orientation toward Therapy -- 4.4. What Can Therapists Do? -- 4.5. Participation in Sessions -- 4.6. Diverse Perspectives, Modes of Participation, and Stakes in Sessions -- 4.7. Diverse Re-Interpretations of Sessions Elsewhere -- 4.8. Struggles over Sessions and Their Uses -- 5 Therapy in Clients' Social Practice across Places -- 5.1. Diverse Modes of Participation in Diverse Contexts -- 5.2. Particular Features of Sessions Work in Conflictual Practices -- 5.3. Ways to Include Sessions at Home -- 5.4. Pursuing Concerns and Gathering Stances across Times and Places -- 5.5. Experience, Reflection, and Talk across Contexts -- 6 Changes in Clients' Practice across Places -- 6.1. Understanding Change -- 6.2. Changing from Different Angles -- 6.3. Continuing Pursuits and Other Conflicts -- 6.4. When Have We Had Enough? -- 6.5. Changing Understandings of Change -- Sameness and Difference, Routines and Variations in Changes -- Learning in a Changing Social Practice -- Self-Confidence and Pulling Myself Together in Social Practice -- Stability and Hanging Togetherness in a Changing Practice -- Understanding Open-Ended Changes -- 7 Changing Problems across Places -- 7.1. Focus and Frame -- 7.2. The Course of Changing Problems -- Relating to Angie's Symptoms and Problems -- Being Cross at Home -- "Now I Must Pull Myself Together" -- Problems in Other Places -- Taking Care of Others and Your Own Life -- 7.3. Problems Subside, Vary, and Flare Up -- "We Have to Find Each Other Again".

"She Has Done Everything to Ruin Our Trust" -- Making Joint Arrangements for Different Lives -- 7.4. One Problem after Another -- "We Don't Turn the Same Things into Problems" -- 7.5. Re-Considering Changing Problems -- Illness Problems in Everyday Life -- Changing Open-Ended Problems -- Changing Understandings of Problems -- 8 The Conduct of Everyday Life and the Life Trajectory -- 8.1. The Conduct of Everyday Life -- 8.2. The Life Trajectory -- 9 The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories -- 9.1. Angie -- Conducting a Life in Dependency -- Moving Confidently around in Separate Worlds -- An Unstable, Varying, and Changing Conduct of Life and Self-Understanding -- Being Away and at Home -- Becoming Different and Changing Demands on Others' Recognition -- Reaching Toward What? -- 9.2. Donna -- Being Away Most of the Time -- Living in Separate Worlds -- Taking Care of Myself in My Room -- Struggling with the Way I Conduct Myself -- Switches as Changes? -- Resentment, Self-Confidence, Self-Respect, and Change -- Being Told, Deciding for Myself, or Being Heard -- Leaving School, Changing My Conduct of Life, and Future Perspectives -- 10 The Parents' Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories -- 10.1. Mary -- Being Strongly Committed to Leading an Ordinary Life -- "The Mother Takes Care of It All" -- "But I Think It's Unfair!" -- "I'm Going to Lead a Different Life" -- "We Created It Ourselves" -- Changing Her Practice of Care -- Rising Aspirations, Dissatisfaction, and Disappointments -- 10.2. Paul -- Changing from the Periphery -- Being Targeted in Disagreements over Changes -- Being Pushed and Having Doubts about Changing -- Trust and Clarification of Stances -- Being Good Enough? -- Becoming More Supportive Yet Remaining Less Central -- Threatening to Leave and Recognizing Differences.

Needing Time to Ponder and Being Less Optimistic -- Striking a New Balance and Beginning to Look Ahead -- Pursuing Continuity and Change -- 11 The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life and Family Trajectory -- 11.1. The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life -- Making Open Family Arrangements -- Arranging Family Life for Family Matters -- Considering Other Parts of Members' Lives -- Taking Care of Each Other at Home -- Being a "We" with Four Different Persons -- Intimate Troubles -- 11.2. The Changing Family Trajectory -- Changing Understandings and Pursuits of a Family Trajectory -- Changing Arrangement of Family Care -- Learning and Getting It Right or Wrong -- Changing Commitments and Understandings with Each Other -- Changing Family Relationships -- Intricacies of a Changing Family Trajectory -- Understanding Transformations -- 12 Research in Social Practice -- 12.1. Researching Persons in Social Practice -- 12.2. Conceptual Dimensions and Outcomes of the Project -- 12.3. Empirical Dimensions and Outcomes of the Project -- 12.4. Uses of Research in Social Practice -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.