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
Table des matières
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 Maria Gamiz
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
A propos de l’auteur
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).
Nadia Crittenden is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where she has she has taught for many years, conducted training workshops, and presented and published research
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