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Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page i P C ERSONAL ONSTRUCT C A OUNSELLING IN CTION Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page ii 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 Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page iii P C ERSONAL ONSTRUCT C OUNSELLING Second Edition Fay Fransella and Peggy Dalton SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page iv © 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 All rights reserved.No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks,California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32,M-Block Market Greater Kailash– I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 6614 5 ISBN 0 7619 6615 3 (pbk) Library ofCongress catalog record available Typeset by M Rules Printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd,Guildford,Surrey Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page v 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 v Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page vi Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page vii A CKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to thank Windy Dryden, the editor of this series, for his help during the writing of this book. vii Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page viii Personal Construct CIA 28/2/00 6:40 pm Page ix 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. ix
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