Personal Construct Psychology

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.

This book presents the latest thinking and research in PersonalConstruct Psychology (PCP) covering a broad range of areas ofinterest to both researcher and practitioner. It provides reportsof empirical research, reflections by practicing personal constructpsychologists and conceptual analyses of issues pertaining tocurrent and emerging theoretical issues in PCP. The book consistsof five sections covering:* Theory and History* Assessment and Understanding* Problems of Living* Evidence-Based Interventions* Other Interventions, Clinical and EducationalContributors are international scholars and practitioners basedin a variety of clinical settings. In addition, the contributionsreflect the internationalisation of PCP, with contributors comingfrom the USA, the UK, Europe and Australasia.Personal Construct Psychology is a valuable resource fora wide range of health professionals, educationalists andpractitioners in counselling and clinical psychology.

About the Editors.List of Contributors.Preface.Acknowledgements.SECTION I: THEORY AND HISTORY.1. Applying personal construct models to work with people(Linda L. Viney).2. Personal construct therapy and its history in pragmatism(Trevor Butt).3. Reflections on the "artistic mentality" andpersonal construct psychology (Bill Warren).4. Personal construct psychology through a poststructurallens (Paula Eustace and Nina Bruni).5. The joint spatial representation of constructs and elements(Prasuna Reddy and Richard C. Bell).6. The "inquiring man" in the laboratory(Harald Seelig and Janina Radó).7. Small steps against the tyranny of distance in isolatedcommunities (Linda L. Viney).SECTION II: ASSESSMENT AND UNDERSTANDING.8. Therapeutic artistry: evoking experiential andrelational truths (Larry M. Leitner).9. Diversity and multiculturalism in psychotherapy:A personal construct perspective (Derek C. Oliver and Mark W.Schlutsmeyer).10. Making sense of dementia (Sally Robbins and MikeBender).11. Psychotherapists' theoretical orientations aselaborative choices (David A. Winter, Finn Tschudi and NicholasGilbert).12. A personal construct theory view of professional identity(Julie Ellis).SECTION III: PROBLEMS OF LIVING.13. Trust and dependency in younger and older people (NicoleG. Rossotti, David A. Winter and Mary H. Watts).14. THC and PCP: factors maintaining cannabis use in people withand without psychosis (Bob Green).15. Counselling after sexual assault: a personal construct modelof the impact of counsellors' responses to client disclosure(Carole Carter and Linda L. Viney).16. Role relationships and the restoration of coherence in thestories of women diagnosed with breast cancer (Lisbeth G. Laneand Linda L. Viney).17. A hygienic process? Researcher and participants construingeach other's worlds (Alessandra Iantaffi).SECTION IV: EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS.18. Menopause: the start of change (Heather Foster and LindaL. Viney).19. When the unreal becomes real: an evaluation of personalconstruct group psychotherapy with survivors of breast cancer(Lisbeth G. Lane and Linda L. Viney).20. Personal construct group work with troubledadolescents (Deborah Truneckova and Linda L. Viney).SECTION V: OTHER INTERVENTIONS, CLINICAL ANDEDUCATIONAL.21. Tapping into pre-service teachers' perceptions ofsuccessful language teachers: A repertory grid approach (PamelaLeung).22. Movement in personal change: the practice of dance therapy(Sabrina Cipolletta).23. The posture of anticipation: Kelly and Alexander (DavidM. Mills).24. The art of writing: embodiment and pre-verbal construing(Vivien Burr).Index.