Personal Construct Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

175 Pages·2000·0.76 MB·English

by  Fay Fransella

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P C
ERSONAL ONSTRUCT
C A
OUNSELLING IN CTION
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Series Editor:Windy Dryden
SAGE’s bestselling Counselling in Actionseries has gone from strength
tostrength,with worldwide sales of well over 250,000 copies.Since the
firstvolumes in the series were published,the number of counselling
courseshas grown enormously,resulting in continuing demand for
theseintroductory texts.
In response,and to keep pace with current developments in theory and
practice,SAGE are pleased to announce that new and expanded editions of
six of the volumes have now been published.
These short,practical books– developed especially for counsellors and
students of counselling– will continue to provide clear and explicit
guidelines for counselling practice.
New editions in the series include:
Feminist Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Jocelyn Chaplin
Gestalt Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Petru¯ska Clarkson
Transcultural Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Patricia d’Ardenne and Aruna Mahtani
Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Windy Dryden
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Michael Jacobs
Person-Centred Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne
Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Diana Whitmore
Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Ian Stewart
Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action,Second Edition
Tim Bond
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P C
ERSONAL ONSTRUCT
C
OUNSELLING
Second Edition
Fay Fransella and
Peggy Dalton
SAGE Publications
London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi
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© Fay Fransella and Peggy Dalton 2000
First edition published as Personal Construct Counselling in Action 1990
Reprinted 1992,1993,1995,1998
This edition first published 2000
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C
ONTENTS
Acknowledgement vii
Preface ix
1 THEIDEASBEHINDTHEACTION 1
2 SETTINGTHESCENE 17
3 THEFRAMEWORKFORUNDERSTANDINGPROBLEMS
ANDPOSSIBILITIES 34
4 EXPLORINGTHECLIENT’SWORLD 56
5 COUNSELLINGASAPROCESSOFRECONSTRUCTION 85
6 THEPROCESSOFCHANGEFORLISA 115
7 ENDINGANDEVALUATINGTHEPROCESSOFPERSONAL
CONSTRUCTCOUNSELLING– ANDBEYOND 142
References 155
Index 159
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CKNOWLEDGEMENT
We wish to thank Windy Dryden, the editor of this series, for his help
during the writing of this book.
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P
REFACE
Personal construct counselling is as much to do with approaching a client
with a particular frame of mind as with specific theoretical details about
what one might do and specific techniques one might use. This book is
designed to provide the reader with a clear idea of what this frame of
mind is and the important theoretical ideas that underpin the counselling
endeavour.No one will become a personal construct counsellor simply by
reading this book,as counselling can only be learned through supervised
practice.But the reader will gain some idea of how we work within that
frame of mind and some of the specific theoretical concepts and tech-
niques we use.
You may well find some of the techniques that have arisen from within
personal construct psychology of use in your attempts to understand
those with problems, whether or not you find the personal construct
approach of value in itself.References will be provided at the end of the
book for those who would like to study the psychology of personal con-
structs in greater depth.
THE LANGUAGE
The aim of this book is to present you with theoretical constructs without
also drowning you in the associated jargon.For jargon there is in plenty.
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