Abstract
In search of a better relationship between developmental research and clinical practice in recent Japanese judicial/welfare practices, this article presented two research studies were presented as material for discussion, with respect to how they contributed to clinical practice. Both studies focused not on the specific therapeutic setting itself but rather on everyday life as a whole, and stressed the importance of micro-analysis of how the problem was socially constructed. These studies were relevant to clinical practice in that they used qualitative descriptions of the field in which clinical practice is carried out that (1) relativized the seriousness of the situation with troubled youth and (2) offered a basis for recognition of multiagency work.
