Personal Construct Psychology New Ideas

by Caputi, Peter; Foster, Heather; Viney, Linda L.

• ISBN13: 9780470019436
• ISBN10: 0470019433
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book presents the latest thinking and research in Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) covering a broad range of areas of interest to both researcher and practitioner. It provides reports of empirical research, reflections by practicing personal construct psychologists and conceptual analyses of issues pertaining to current and emerging theoretical issues in PCP. The book consists of five sections covering: Theory and History Assessment and Understanding Problems of Living Evidence-Based Interventions Other Interventions, Clinical and Educational Contributors are international scholars and practitioners based in a variety of clinical settings. In addition, the contributions reflect the internationalisation of PCP, with contributors coming from the USA, the UK, Europe and Australasia. Personal Construct Psychology is a valuable resource for a wide range of health professionals, educationalists and practitioners in counselling and clinical psychology.

Author Biography

Peter Caputi is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He has published over 30 journal articles in the areas of Personal Construct Psychology, information systems and measurement issues in psychology, as well as co-authoring a textbook in research methods. He has reviewed for the International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, now the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and Personal Construct Theory and Practice. He has also edited conference abstracts for the Australian Journal of Psychology.

Linda L. Viney is Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wollongong. She was instrumental in introducing personal Construct Psychology in Australia and published extensively in the area as well as generally in clinical, counseling and health psychology. She has been Consulting Editor and Editor of the Australian Psychologist, and official journal of the APS. Linda has also been Foundation Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, now the Journal of Constructivist Psychology (1988-), and Guest Editor of the issue based on the Fourth Australasian Conference on Personal Construct Psychology, which she co-ordinated in Volume 3 (1990). Special Editor 1999, Community Mental Health Journal, for the American Association of Community Psychiatrists.

Heather Foster PhD, Dip Ed (Tech.), is a registered psychologist who ahs applied personal construct psychology in clinical, academic and research areas of psychology. Her research interest is in changes in mid-life, particularly menopause. She draws on a wide background in psychology and vocational education and training and worked for many years in the NSW vocational and education training system. Her work include counseling, teaching, curriculum, policy and management roles, and involved writing, editing and managing the production of educational publications.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
SECTION I THEORY AND HISTORY
1 Applying personal construct models to work with people	3	(14)
Linda L. Viney
2 Personal construct therapy and its history in pragmatism	17	(10)
Trevor Butt
3 Reflections on the "artistic mentality" and personal construct psychology	27	(8)
Bill Warren
4 Personal construct psychology through a poststructural lens	35	(12)
Paula Eustace and Nina Bruni
5 The joint spatial representation of constructs and elements	47	(14)
Prasuna Reddy and Richard C. Bell
6 The "inquiring man" in the laboratory	61	(10)
Harald Seelig and Janina Radó
7 Small steps against the tyranny of distance in isolated communities	71	(12)
Linda L. Viney
SECTION II ASSESSMENT AND UNDERSTANDING
8 Therapeutic artistry: evoking experiential and relational truths	83	(16)
Larry M. Leitner
9 Diversity and multiculturalism in psychotherapy: A personal construct perspective	99	(10)
Derek C. Oliver and Mark W. Schlutsmeyer
10 Making sense of dementia	109	(22)
Sally Robbins and Mike Bender
11 Psychotherapists' theoretical orientations as elaborative choices	131	(20)
David A. Winter, Finn Tschudi and Nicholas Gilbert
12 A personal construct theory view of professional identity	151	(12)
Julie Ellis
SECTION III PROBLEMS OF LIVING
13 Trust and dependency in younger and older people	163	(14)
Nicole G. Rossotti, David A. Winter and Mary H. Watts
14 THC and PCP: factors maintaining cannabis use in people with and without psychosis	177	(18)
Bob Green
15 Counselling after sexual assault: a personal construct model of the impact of counsellors' responses to client disclosure	195	(10)
Carole Carter and Linda L. Viney
16 Role relationships and the restoration of coherence in the stories of women diagnosed with breast cancer	205	(10)
Lisbeth G. Lane and Linda L. Viney
17 An hygienic process? Researcher and participants construing each other's worlds	215	(14)
Alessandra Iantaffi
SECTION IV EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS
18 Menopause: the start of change	229	(12)
Heather Foster and Linda L. Viney
19 When the unreal becomes real: an evaluation of personal construct group psychotherapy with survivors of breast cancer	241	(12)
Lisbeth G. Lane and Linda L. Viney
20 Personal construct group work with troubled adolescents	253	(20)
Deborah Truneckova and Linda L. Viney
SECTION V OTHER INTERVENTIONS, CLINICAL AND EDUCATIONAL
21 Tapping into pre-service teachers' perceptions of successful language teachers: A repertory grid approach	273	(22)
Pamela Leung
22 Movement in personal change: the practice of dance therapy	295	(8)
Sabrina Cipolletta
23 The posture of anticipation: Kelly and Alexander	303	(14)
David M. Mills
24 The art of writing: embodiment and pre-verbal construing	317	(6)
Vivien Burr
Index	323