Personal Construct Methodology

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

• About the Editors ix List of Contributors xiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiPART I: SETTING THE SCENE1 Assessment of Personal Constructs: Features and Functions of Constructivist Techniques 3Heather Gaines Hardison and Robert A. Neimeyer2 Qualitative Methods in Personal Construct Research: A Set of Possible Criteria 53Linda L. Viney and Sue NagyPART II: QUALITATIVE APPROACHES: EXPLORING PROCESS3 The Use of Laddering: Techniques, Applications and Problems 71Beverly M. Walker and Nadia Crittenden4 The ABC Model Revisited 89Finn Tschudi and David Winter5 The Self-Characterization Technique: Uses, Analysis and Elaboration 109Nadia Crittenden and Chantel Ashkar6 Experience Cycle Methodology: A Method for Understanding the Construct Revision Pathway 129Lindsay G. Oades and Linda L. VineyPART III: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES: EXPLORING PROCESS7 An Introduction to Grid-based Methods 149Peter Caputi8 Analyzing Grids: New and Traditional Approaches 159Peter Caputi, Richard Bell and Desley Hennessy9 Computer-aided Constructivism 183Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L.G. Shaw10 Using Constructivist-oriented Content Analysis Scales 223Linda L. Viney and Peter CaputiPART IV: METHODS IN COUNSELING AND CLINICAL SETTINGS11 Narrative Assessment in Psychotherapy: A Constructivist Approach 247Luis Botella and Marıa Gamiz12 Using Contrasting Drawings or Pictures as an Assessment Tool within a Personal Construct Framework 269Heather Foster and Linda L. Viney13 Personal Construct Psychotherapy Techniques with Adolescents: An Integrated Model 287Miriam Stein, Elaine Atkinson, and Anne FraserIndex 319