Drawing The Ideal Self (Personal Construct Psychology

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Drawing the Ideal Self (Personal Construct Psychology - PCP)

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Learn about Personal Construct Psychology (PCP)and how to use it in your work with Heather Moran, educational and clinical psychologist. Heather has worked with young people and professionals in a variety of roles over the past 40 years and has developed techniques for use in therapy, counselling and coaching sessions. She is trying to bring PCP to people who might not have come across it before, as well as to support the development of those who want to hone their skills with children, young people and adults. You can find out more about her work at drawingtheidealself.co.uk.

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Drawing the Ideal Self (Personal Construct Psychology - PCP)

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Loose construing 13:07

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This episode looks at De Boeck’s (1981) analysis of Kelly's statements about loose construing. This is a helpful summary. If you would like to read the paper, it is largely about grids analysis of construing in schizophrenia, so it may not suit everyone. Reference Van den Bergh, O., de Boeck, P., and Claeys. W. (1985) Schizophrenia: What is Loose in Schizophrenic Construing? Button, E. (Ed.) Personal Construct Theory & Mental Health. Room Helm,Australia…

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PCP Formulation 39:54

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Kelly’s theory is all about the anticipation of experiences and how we make sense of experiences in the light of our personal construing. A PCP formulation will focus on what is seems to be going on in the person’s construing system. Kelly has six important questions for the therapist to help them to formulate and then uses particular terms to describe what seems to be happening - a reference to the construing system and its constructs. Remember that more than one thing can be going on at a time, and that we would always check out a formulation with the client because we might be missing something. Also note that Kelly does not separate the assessment and intervention because the assessment will always be live - people are likely to offer more relevant information about their construing as they develop a relationship with the therapist. Construing will develop and new constructs and connections will emerge over time, sometimes leading to them being able to explain their experiences and the impact on their construing for the first time. Reference: Kelly, G.A. (1955 and reprinted 1991) The Psychology of Personal Constructs.…

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Set your own learning path through this podcast by using the DiS podcast navigator 8:37

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This episode introduces the DiS podcast navigator booklet which you can get the link below (it is free). The aim is to help you to find past episodes more easily by sorting them by their topic. The booklet has hyperlinks directly to the podcast episodes on You Tube. The link is: https://BookHip.com/NCWLAVV…

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Laddering: a really useful PCP technique. Ep.32 33:36

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This month the episode is about laddering, which came as a request from a listener. A great request because it is an extremely powerful technique so should be used with great care and full attention being paid to the person you are working with. Laddering can very quickly get to aspects of a person’s construing they may not have expressed in words, so the experience can be surprising to them - for good or bad reasons. Learning to use laddering is very important for PCP practitioners because it is a way to explore how the person’s choices in their daily life are connected to their core constructs. This episode looks at two papers on laddering, one by Fransella and one by Walker and Crittenden. Laddering is something that looks and sounds very easy but it requires theoretical understanding to use it well. Kelly proposed that a person has many, many constructs and that they are organised in a hierarchical system. Some constructs will be extremely important to the person - their core constructs. Having an awareness of a person’s core constructs will be very important if we want to understand them better. The authors here describe laddering and pick up some of the common questions about process. Fransella, F. (2003). Some Skills and Tools for Personal Construct Practitioners. Ch. 10 in Fransella, F. (Ed). International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. Walker, B., and Crittenden, N. (2012). The use of Laddering: Techniques, Applications and Problems. Ch. 3 in Caputi, P., Viney, L.L., Walker, B., and Crittenden, N. Personal Construct Methodology.…

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Tell me what you’d like to hear about in this podcast 4:25

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Today is not a usual episode but an invitation to tell me know whether you find the podcast useful and what you’d like to hear about in future.

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Finding out about a person’s construing is the key to understanding their problem . Ep.46 30:07

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If we want to be able to help people, we will need to understand their personal construing of the problem. Exploring this with them- finding out about their constructs - will enable us to begin this process. This episode includes a typical referral for an anxious child, with three very different possible constructions of the problem. This is a reminder that construing is personal and individual, and is related to what we make of our experiences. The PCP Pocketbook can be found here: https://amzn.eu/d/7AO5chv…

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Kelly's definition of hostility applied to an event in the recent news Ep.45 15:36

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n this episode we will think about Kelly’s definition of hostility applied to an aspect of the recent race riots in the UK. On the whole, as we have experiences, we make adjustments to construing, based on fresh evidence. However, there will be times when, despite all the evidence, we hang on to our current construing. Kelly’s professional or transitional constructs offer potential explanations for where our construing is ‘stuck’. Hostility is one of them. As always, Kelly pays particular attention to the fact that changes in our most important (core) constructs will be a major challenge for us because the implications will be far-reaching.…

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Drawing the Ideal Retired Person (to prepare for the future). Ep.44 15:58

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Have you considered what lies ahead when you retired from working? Whatever you do now, one day that will happen, so it is better to be prepared for it. This month’s episode is a new technique, Drawing the Ideal Retired Person. This is an exploration of the future, aiming to promote a smoother adjustment to that phase of your life. There will also be a step-by-step video on You Tube so you can see the technique in parts, hopefully making it easier to follow. https://youtu.be/0z8htw-sO_Q?si=_ASdbxyXJXjC8g3e…

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Construing my body - a new technique to understand the impact of physical health problems. Ep.43 23:09

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This episode introduces a new technique to explore the impact of physical health problems through the exploration of personal construing. Concerns about our bodies can be persistent and may be very distressing so understanding what lies behind the distress is important if we want to help someone. The steps of the process are described here but there is also a more detailed video example on my You Tube channel.…

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Time - a personal construction. Ep.42 20:11

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This month’s episode will be focussed on time. I listened to a few things on the radio about time and read some articles which were all very interesting and sparked this episode. I summarise the information from them and think about what Dorothy Rowe had to say about it and a few ideas for exploring a person’s personal constructions. References All in the mind(Why it is hard to recall 2021) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001scxf A sense of time(Can we learn a sense of time?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003qxf Do we have a sense of time?(Connections between body signals and time perception) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4y3w A stopwatch on the brain's perception of time(Emotions affect awareness of time passing) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/01/psychology-time-perception-awareness-research Rowe, D. (1995). Dorothy Rowe’s Guide to Life.…

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Explore how fiction has influenced your construing. Ep.41 32:52

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I thought it was time to invite you to have a go at something you could easily use with people you are working with. This involves eliciting constructs, identifying the more important ones and then pyramiding those constructs. You will use fantasy characters or stories that had an impact on you when you were growing up and it does not matter what sort of media they are from - books, TV, film, games etc. The important things is that they are fictional, which I hope will make the exploration suitable for any age. I have given an example of my own construing working through the technique so that you can hear a real example. I hope you will find that you can try it yourself and then that you might find it useful in your work. If you do, I would be interested to hear how you found it. As always, what you will end up with is a range of constructs but these will be more concrete. The stories I used were: The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids - Grimm’s Fairytales https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm005.html Little Red Riding Hood - Grimm’s Fairy Tales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood Snow White - the movie and then the audio version of the film which I had on vinyl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film) The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099469634?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_RC7BHHNN58HBPDSWQ7A9 The Singing Ringing Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Ringing_Tree The Famous Five - Enid Blyton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five…

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Miller Mair’s The Community of Self: a creative way to explore the self. Ep.40 29:55

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This episode has an idea you can experiment with as an exploration of yourself. Miller Mair’s Community of Self is an interesting and rather playful way to take a look at yourself as a number of characters engaged in ‘producing’ you. I have taken some excepts from a paper by Mair and if you are interested, it would be worth reading the whole paper for more about the background to it. References: The Community of Self. Ch.8 in Towards a Radical Redefinition of Psychology. The selected works of Miller Mair, by Winter, D. & Reed, N. (2015). Cummins, P., & Moran, H. (2023). The PCP Pocketbook of Personal Construct Psychology Techniques. Available on Amazon only. Grieg, A. & MacKay, T. (2023). The Homunculi Approach To Social And Emotional Wellbeing. 2nd Edition.…

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The influence of teachers’ constructions on a sense of self Ep. 39 29:15

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Happy New Year! This month I have been thinking about the way we might experience being construed by teachers. This is meaningful throughout our lives and can affect the way we construe ourselves. It was sparked by listening to the BBC Radio 4 Life Changing programme which reminded me how important that is:. The episode was from May 2023: Overheard. The programme blub says, “Dr Sian Williams talks to people who have lived through extraordinary events that have reshaped their lives in the most unpredictable ways.” In response to that programme, I thought I would explore how I was construed by teachers. I re-read my secondary school reports and could see connections between how I was construed, how my construing developed and the links with my professional interests.…

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How could choosing to serve a longer prison sentence ever make sense? Ep. 38 24:49

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This month’s episode will consider how validation is a more useful construct than reinforcement when we wonder why someone made a challenging choice. It also summarises a paper about the impact of wrongful imprisonment on a person. The paper is freely available - details below. A dilemma faced by one such prisoner is used as an example. I have been thinking about that situation ever since I heard about it - it made me think again about my core constructs. I hope you find it interesting and useful. Please let me know if you do. It helps me to know whether what I am doing makes sense to other people. If you are a regular listener, I would love to know that too. You can email me at drawingtheidealself@icloud.com . Reference Brooks, S.K, Greenberg, N. (2020). Psychological impact of being wrongfully accused of criminal offences: A systematic literature review. Medicine, Science and the Law. 2021;61(1):44-54. doi:10.1177/0025802420949069…

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Dr. Emily Strong: Using PCP to explore the Speaking and Non-Speaking Self. Ep.37 44:54

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