Personal Construct Methodology

About this book

Written by an international team of experts, this collection provides a comprehensive account of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within the framework of personal construct theory.

- Covers methods such as content analysis scales, repertory grid methodology, narrative assessments and drawings, the laddering and ABC techniques, and discusses how and why they are used
- Explores both qualitative and quantitative methods, as well as methods used in clinical and counselling settings
- Includes 13 contributions from leading international scholars

Contents

About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE
1 Assessment of Personal Constructs: Features and Functions of Constructivist Techniques 3
      Heather Gaines Hardison and Robert A. Neimeyer
2 Qualitative Methods in Personal Construct Research: A Set of Possible Criteria 53
      Linda L. Viney and Sue Nagy

PART II: QUALITATIVE APPROACHES: EXPLORING PROCESS
3 The Use of Laddering: Techniques, Applications and Problems 71
      Beverly M. Walker and Nadia Crittenden
4 The ABC Model Revisited 89
      Finn Tschudi and David Winter
5 The Self-Characterization Technique: Uses, Analysis and Elaboration 109
      Nadia Crittenden and Chantel Ashkar
6 Experience Cycle Methodology: A Method for Understanding the Construct Revision Pathway 129
      Lindsay G. Oades and Linda L. Viney

PART III: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES: EXPLORING PROCESS
7 An Introduction to Grid-based Methods 149
      Peter Caputi
8 Analyzing Grids: New and Traditional Approaches 159
      Peter Caputi, Richard Bell and Desley Hennessy
9 Computer-aided Constructivism 183
      Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L.G. Shaw
10 Using Constructivist-oriented Content Analysis Scales 223
      Linda L. Viney and Peter Caputi

PART IV: METHODS IN COUNSELING AND CLINICAL SETTINGS
11 Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach 247
      Luis Botella and MariaGamiz
12 Using Contrasting Drawings or Pictures as an Assessment Tool within a Personal Construct Framework 269
      Heather Foster and Linda L. Viney
13 Personal Construct Psychotherapy Techniques with Adolescents: An Integrated Model 287
      Miriam Stein, Elaine Atkinson, and Anne Fraser

Index 319

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Biography

Peter Caputi is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of Personal Construct Psychology: New Ideas (edited with Foster & Viney, Wiley, 2006).

Linda L. Viney is Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia and her most recent publication is Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory, Practice and Research (2005).

Beverley M. Walker is Honorary Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her publications include The Construction of Group Realities: Culture, Society and Personal Construct Theory (edited with Kalekin-Fishman & Walker, 1996) and The Internet Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology (edited with Scheer & Walker).