The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1005

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology is the definitive new reference for the field, providing a state-of-the-art review of PCP which focuses on the theory and its philosophy, methodology, areas of application and future horizons

• A definitive new reference work for the field of personal construct psychology, featuring leading international figures in the field
• Each section begins with a concise chapter that reviews the literature in  the area concerned and highlights  new developments
• Covers theory, history, methodology and a wealth of new and established applications including education, grief and meaning reconstruction, sexuality, organizational consultancy and personal construct coaching
• Draws on published and previously unpublished work by pioneers including Fay Fransella and Miller Mair

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

References

Preface

References

1 What Is a Personal Construct?

What a Construct Is NOT

What a Construct IS

Constructs and Counseling

In Summary

References

Part I: Personal Construct Psychology and Its Philosophy

2 Personal Construct Theory and Philosophy

Introduction

Links

Latencies

Constructivism

Conclusions

References

3 George Kelly

References

4 Personal Construct Psychology in Relation to an Integrative Constructivism

Premise 1: People as Informationally Closed Systems

Premise 2: People as Active Meaning-Makers

Premise 3: People as Social Beings

Premise 4: People as Ontological and Epistemological Construers

Conclusion

References

5 Philosophy and Psychology

Philosophy and the Theory of Personal Constructs

Philosophy of Science

Psychology for Personality and Psychotherapy and “Humankind”

Distinctiveness: Different from Others, Unique

References

6 So Distant, Yet So Close

Kelly’s and Maturana’s Epistemological Roots

Construing Events, Objects Brought Forth

Invariance through Change

The Relational Emergence and Development of Self

Kelly’s Professional Constructs Revisited

Conclusions

References

Part II: Methodology

7 Methodologies of Assessment in Personal Construct Psychology

Introduction

The Bipolar Nature of Assessment in Personal Construct Psychology

Unconstrained Narratives

Self-Characterization

Characterization of Others

Laddering

The Repertory Grid

Dependency Grids

Implications Grids

Resistance-to-Change Grids

Questionnaire Approaches to Personal Construct Assessment

Conclusions

References

8 Assessment of Hierarchies of Construing

Grid-Based Approaches

Non-Grid-Based Approaches

Concluding Remark

References

9 Using Linear Mixed Models with Repertory Grid Data

Introduction

Linear Mixed Models

Multigrid One

Conclusion

References

10 Nonverbal Assessment Methods

Can Construing Be Nonverbal?

What Is Assessment in a PCT Framework?

Distinguishing the Verbal from the Nonverbal?

Why Use Nonverbal Assessment?

The Visual and the Nonverbal

Examples of Nonverbal Assessment Methods Used in PCT

Conclusions

References

11 Experience Cycle Methodology

Introduction

Experience and the Experience Cycle

Describing the Experience Cycle Methodology

Case Examples of Adolescents with Selective Mutism

Follow-up of Research Participants Living with Selective Mutism

Researcher’s Reflections on Using Experience Cycle Methodology

References

Part III: Society and Culture

12 Personal Construct Psychology, Society, and Culture

The Micro–Macro Debate

Societal, Cultural, and Group Construct Systems

The Personal and the Social: Identity

Power

Alienation

Discussion

References

13 “Culture’s like an extra layer on top isn’t it?” Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People

Method

Findings

Discussion

References

14 Relational Construct Psychology

The Social Elaboration of Personal Construct Psychology

Relational Construct Systems

From Sociality to Relationality

Levels of Interpersonal Construing

Qualitative Grids

Conclusion

References

15 The Political Program of Personal Construct Psychology

The Political Program of Personal Construct Psychology

Coalitions

References

16 Transcending War-Ravaged Biographies

Former Child Soldiers

Construing of Mental Health Problems and Their Treatment

Dante’s Inferno: The Harsh Reality of Treatment for Mental Health Problems in Sierra Leone

Beyond Amputation

Escaping the War

Conclusions

References

Part IV: Clinical Applications

17 The Continuing Clinical Relevance of Personal Construct Psychology

“Disorder”

Personal Construct Psychotherapy

Summary and Conclusions

References

18 Experiential Personal Construct Psychology and the Integral Universe

EPCP and the Integral Universe

Previous Work on the Integral Universe

The Role of Inner Experiences

Symptomatology in the Universe

The Integral Universe and Psychopathology

The Question of the Aliveness of the Universe

References

19 Dilemma Resolution

Construct Systems Are Not Logical

The Dilemma of Therapy

Therapy for Dilemmas

Identifying Dilemmas

Changing Dilemmas

References

20 A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Personal Construct Psychotherapy

The Philosophical Background

An Outline of Hermeneutic Constructivist Psychotherapy

References

21 Reconstructing Meaning in Bereavement

Loss and the Quest for Meaning

Strategies for Creating Meaning

References

Part V: Organizational Applications

22 Personal Construct Theory, Research, and Practice in the Field of Business and Management

Use and Applications of PCP in Business and Management

New Opportunities for Applying PCP to Business and Management Research and Practice

Final Comments

References

23 Consulting in Organizations

Where to Begin?

What does Consulting Mean to the Client?

What Is the Client’s Initial Conceptualization of the Consultant?

How Does the Consultant Construe Their Role?

How to Construe the Outcomes of Our Work?

Reference

24 Humanizing Healthcare

A PCP-Based Intervention to Embed Shared Values in a Healthcare Organization

Values Discernment Booklet Content

Conclusion

References

25 Organizational Paradoxes

When Success Leads to Failure

Organizational Paradoxes and How Our Habitual Responses Limit Our Thinking

The Power of Constructive Alternativism for Managers Facing Paradoxes

Kelly’s Theory and the Idea of Complicated

either/or

in his Notion of the “Construct”

Kelly Also Valued

and/both

Thinking—Duality

Pilot Run to Capture Executives’ Janusian Thinking Using the Repertory Grid

The Need for Both

Dualisms

and

Dualities

in Our Search for Meaning

Final Thoughts on Kelly and Organizational Paradoxes

References

26 Personal Construct Coaching

Learn/Change or Perish: Coaching as a Technology of the Learning Society

From Personal Construct Therapy to Personal Construct Coaching

A Framework for Personal Construct Coaching

Personal Construct Coaching and Personal Construct Therapy: Construing Similarities and Differences

In Conclusion: Construing the Future of Personal Construct Coaching

References

Part VI: Educational Applications

27 From Periphery to Core

Establishing the Context

The Influence of Core Assumptions

Exploring Other Cognate Traditions and Methods

The Exemplar Case of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (“STEM”) Education

Teachers as Learners

Constructivist Research and Practice in the Wider Realm of Education

Summation and Contrition

References

28 Learning and Education

Learning

Education

References

29 Creativity with Students

Learning/Creativity

Facilitating Learning/Creativity

References

30 Reconstructing Lifelong Learning

The Role of Time

The Passage of Time: Experience and Reflection

Accessing the Inner Self

LifeMapping™: A Self-Centered Study of Inner Life

Representations of the Inner Self

Anticipatory Reflection for a [Post]Modern World

References

31 School Is Our Common World

The Roma Community in Czech Society

The Roma Community and Educational Disadvantage

A Constructivist-Phenomenological Understanding of the Problem of the School Failure of Roma Children

Conclusions

References

Part VII: New Horizons

32 A Vision of the Future of Personal Construct Psychology

PCP and the Academic Past

PCP Outside Academia

Out of Academia

The Formal Organization of PCP

Therapy

Teaching

Supervision

Research

Conclusion

References

33 Construing Homicide

One-Off Killing

Serial Killing

Mass Murder

Genocide

Conclusions

References

34 Too Much of a Bad Thing

References

35 Personal Construct Psychology and Buddhism

Introducing Buddhist Psychology

Buddhist and PCP Metatheory

Mindfulness in Psychotherapy

Extending Personal Construct Psychotherapy Integration

References

36 Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts

The Arts in Our Lives

PCP and the Arts

Themes in the PCP Approach to the Arts

Potential Implications of a PCP Approach to the Arts

Concluding Remarks

References

37 Personal Construct Psychology and Law

The Fundamental Postulate and law

The Corollaries and Law

Conclusion

References

38 Personal Construct Psychology and Restorative Justice

What Is Restorative Justice, and What Is Its Background?

What Is “Restored” in Restorative Justice?

Conferencing: An Approach to Restoring Dignity

Restorative, Transformative, and Retributive Justice

Concluding Comments

References

39 Changing Behavior to Being More Environmentally Friendly

Introduction

Psychological Approaches Focused on Personal Characteristics

Psychological Approaches Focused on Context Characteristics

The PCP Approach

The Study

Discussion

References

40 George Kelly’s Psychology of Understanding

Introduction

Understanding and Questioning

Kelly’s Psychology of Understanding

The Challenges of Understanding

References

Appendix Personal Construct Theory

Theory

Fundamental Postulate

Construction Corollary

Individuality Corollary

Organization Corollary

Dichotomy Corollary

Choice Corollary

Range Corollary

Experience Corollary

Modulation Corollary

Fragmentation Corollary

Commonality Corollary

Sociality Corollary

Dimensions of Diagnosis and Transition

Assessment of Construing

References

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 06

Table 6.1 Comparison between Various Aspects of Kelly’s and Maturana’s Constructivist Theories.

Table 6.2 Kelly’s Transitional Processes Translated into the Language of the Theory of Autopoiesis.

Table 6.3 Processes Relating to the Endangerment/Disintegration and Conservation/Restoration of the Organization of Self.

Chapter 11

Table 11.1 Experience Cycle Methodology Interview Proforma.

Table 11.2 Demographics of People Living with Selective Mutism (SM).

Table 11.3 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data.

Table 11.4 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data from Louise.

Table 11.5 ABC Technique Applied to Louise Speaking and Not Speaking.

Table 11.6 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data for Abbie.

Table 11.7 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data for Emily.

Table 11.8 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data for Mary.

Table 11.9 Category Groupings for Experience Cycle Methodology in Emily.

Table 11.10 Category Groupings of Experience Cycle Methodology Data for Mary.

Chapter 14

Table 14.1 Ugazio’s Four Semantic Polarities.

Table 14.2 Examples of the Levels of Interpersonal Construing.

Table 14.3 Perceiver Element Grid Depicting a Psychiatric Crisis.

Chapter 16

Table 16.1 Julia’s ABC.

Chapter 22

Table 22.1 Business and Management Research Publications.

Chapter 24

Table 24.1 Organization Values Expressed as Bipolar Constructs.

Table 24.2 Guidelines for Living the Value of Compassion in a Healthcare Setting: Behaviors to be Encouraged and Behaviors to be Disavowed.

Chapter 31

Table 31.1 Perceiver-Element Grid with Children’s and Teacher’s Role Constructs.

Table 31.2 Example of the Analysis of Modalities Applied to Helena’s Statement.

Chapter 39

Table 39.1 Constructs Used in the Repertory Grid.

Table 39.2 The Elements Used in the Repertory Grid.

List of Illustrations

Chapter 06

Figure 6.1 The Emergence of Consciousness through Levels of Recursion According to Maturana and Kelly.

Chapter 09

Figure 9.1 Step 0, The Opening Screen.

Figure 9.2 Step 1a, Load Data.

Figure 9.3 Step 1b, Load External Data.

Figure 9.4 Step 2, Explore Your Grids.

Figure 9.5 Step 3, Select Variables and Indexes.

Figure 9.6 Step 4, Preparing the Data.

Figure 9.7 Step 5a, Selecting the Model.

Figure 9.8 Step 5b, Populating the Model.

Figure 9.9 Step 5c, Model Results.

Chapter 11

Figure 11.1 Kelly’s Experience Cycle.

Chapter 12

Figure 12.1 Position of Serbian Identity within Students’ Construing.

Figure 12.2 Bowtie of Escalating Power and Resistance in an Underachieving Pupil.

Chapter 13

Figure 13.1 Perceiver Element Grid Summarizing Stage 1 Findings.

Chapter 19

Figure 19.1 A Diagrammatic Representation of Anna’s Implicative Dilemma.

Chapter 25

Figure 25.1 Capturing Paradoxical Thinking Using the Repertory Grid: Supplied Bipolar Constructs (Organizational Tensions) and Elicited Role Title Elements of Successful and Unsuccessful Strategic Company Initiatives.

Figure 25.2 Mapping Tensions and Dualities During Strategic Work: A Senior Executive’s Bipolarity of Construing in Psychological Space.

Chapter 26

Figure 26.1 Stages in Personal Construct Coaching.

Figure 26.2 Similarities and Differences between PCT and PCC.

Chapter 30

Figure 30.1 Anticipation, Reflection, and the Flow of Time.

Chapter 32

Figure 32.1 Groupings of Personal Construct Psychologists.

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The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

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Cover image: Miller Mair, The Starry Night

For Don and Fay

Notes on Contributors

Richard C. Bell is a Principal Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely in the fields of psychometric evaluation of psychological scales of measurement and in personal construct psychology. With Fay Fransella he co-authored the second edition of A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique in 2004.

Sean Brophy is a management consultant and author in private practice in Dublin, Ireland. He specializes in educating clients to make sense at times of change in their lives at work so that they can be more effective at solving their own problems. He is a leading practitioner in the application of personal construct psychology, the psychology of change, or of human sense-making, in the context of life in organizations, with experience in Ireland, the U.K., the Middle East, the West Indies, and the United States. He has a particular interest in health care flowing from his many admissions to hospital over his lifetime.