The Essential Practitioner's Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-01323-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

This is a concise paperback version of the authoritative International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, focusing on the practical elements of that volume. Ideal for the individual practitioner, this selection of chapters covers the basic theory of personal constructs; the many skills and tools used by personal construct psychologists; its general application to psychotherapy and counselling; as well as many specific applications such as cross-cultural understanding, post-traumatic stress, children, teacher education, organizational change, nursing and family therapy.
This is an indispensable guide to theory and skills for those wishing to use the personal construct psychology approach in their practice. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals such as psychologists, teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, system engineers and managers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fransella, Fay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editor ix

International Advisory Panel xi

List of Contributors xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xvii

Section I: What Personal Construct Psychology Is All About

Chapter 1 George Alexander Kelly: The Man and his Theory 3
Fay Fransella and Robert A. Neimeyer

Chapter 2 The Logic of Passion 15
Don Bannister

Chapter 3 The Power of a Good Theory 29
Sean Brophy, Fay Fransella and Nick Reed

Section II: What Are Some of PCP’s Techniques?

Chapter 4 Some Skills and Tools for Personal Construct Users 41
Fay Fransella

Chapter 5 A Range of Elicitation Methods to Suit Client and Purpose 57
Pam Denicolo

Chapter 6 The Repertory Grid Technique 67
Richard C. Bell

Chapter 7 Making Sense of Dependency 77
Beverly M.Walker

Chapter 8 Expertise and Expert Systems: Emulating Psychological Processes 87
Mildred L.G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines

Chapter 9 From Theory to Research to Change 95
Fay Fransella

Section III: How Can PCP Help Us to Understand People or Help Them to Change?

Part 1: Working with the Individual or Individuals in Small Groups

Chapter 10 Is Treatment a Good Idea? 109
George A. Kelly

Chapter 11 An Audacious Adventure: Personal Construct Counselling and Psychotherapy 113
Franz R. Epting, Marco Gemignani and Malcolm C. Cross

Chapter 12 The Evidence Base for Personal Construct Psychotherapy 123
David Winter

Chapter 13 Constructive Intervention with Children when Presented as Problems 133
Tom Ravenette

Chapter 14 How Can We Understand One Another if We Don’t Speak the Same Language? 145
Devi Jankowicz

Chapter 15 Working with Anger 153
Peter Cummins

Chapter 16 An Approach to Post-Traumatic Stress 163
Kenneth W. Sewell

Chapter 17.1 Nursing 173
Julie M. Ellis, Jacqui Costigan and Julie Watkinson

Chapter 17.2 Family Therapy 177
Harry Procter

Chapter 17.3 The Metropolitan Police, London: A Personal Account 181
John Porter

Chapter 17.4 A Sporting Use of Personal Construct Psychology 185
David Savage

Chapter 17.5 Artificial Intelligence 189
Jack Adams-Webber

Part 2: Working with Large Groups of People

Chapter 18 Construing Teaching and Teacher Education Worldwide 195
Maureen Pope

Chapter 19 Making Sense of the ‘Group Mind’ 203
Adrian Robertson

Chapter 20 Charting Organizational Change 213
Nelarine Cornelius

Chapter 21 Clarifying Corporate Values: A Case Study 223
Sean Brophy

Section IV: Where Might Personal Construct Psychology Be Going Now?

Chapter 22 Personal Construct Psychotherapy and the Constructivist Horizon 235
Robert A. Neimeyer and Scott A. Baldwin

Chapter 23 New Avenues to Explore and Questions to Ask 245
Fay Fransella

Appendix 1 Theoretical Definitions 253

Appendix 2 Some Basic Books on Personal Construct Psychology 256

Appendix 3 Internet Resources for Personal Construct Psychology 259
Brian R. Gaines

References 263

Index 283

Über Autor(innen)

Fay Fransella is Founder and Director of the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology, Emeritus Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of London and Visiting Professor in Personal Construct Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She has written eleven books, eight of them specifically relating to personal construct psychology and published over one hundred and fifty journal papers and chapters.
She trained and worked as an Occupational Therapist for ten years before taking a degree in psychology and a postgraduate diploma in clinical psychology in 1962. It was during her first job as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London that she was introduced to George Kelly’s personal construct psychology. It was a revolutionary alternative to the dominant behaviourism of the time. She found the view that we are all free agents responsible for what we make of the events which continually confront us particularly liberating. Since that time she has carried out research, mainly into problems of stuttering and weight, together with teaching and writing within the framework of Kelly’s ideas.