Description
Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents comprehensive coverage of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within a personal construct psychology framework. The book is divided into five sections and each chapter introduces a method and then presents an application of that method within a clinical setting.
Table of ContentsAbout 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 Marıa 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
