Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Searching 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 Children's 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
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
9 - The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Searching 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 Children's 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
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
Summary
In this and the next chapter, I go into the conduct of everyday life and life trajectory of each person in turn. The aim is to illuminate how their modes of participation and troubles are parts of their conduct of everyday life and life trajectory. My analysis elaborates their practical reasons for living as they do and for their current concerns. It shows how their individual subjectivities arise from their conduct of everyday life at the current points in their life trajectories. I go into those aspects of the conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory that appear in my materials, referring to what was described earlier and adding aspects not yet introduced. My analysis is limited because the focus of my materials is on the sessions and the clients' lives at home and on their lives in other places as seen from there.
Angie
Conducting a Life in Dependency
When my study begins, Angie is twelve years old. After school, she spends her afternoons at home alone with her mother, reading cartoons, doing home assignments, being bored, and becoming easily cross. Most children her age do things together in other places, and she would like to participate in this. But her anxieties hold her back at home, and a history of being bullied and a change of school to get over it less than two years ago have so far left her with no close bonds to other children in school.
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- Psychotherapy in Everyday Life , pp. 198 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007