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Therapeutic relationships in child-centered personal construct psychotherapy: experiments in constructions of self

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posted on 2024-11-14, 19:52 authored by Deborah Truneckova, Linda Viney
As personal construct psychology is person-centered, child-centered personal construct psychotherapy sets out to have the child the central subject for any psychological enquiry. Child-centered personal construct psychotherapy is developed from the theoretical and practice-based assumptions of personal construct psychology and practiced through the medium of play therapy. Effective psychological change occurs when the child's self-theory is elaborated through the extension and definition of the core construct self-other, with the therapist's construing of the child becoming primary evidence of how the child understands self. Clinical material is provided to further illustrate our child-centered psychotherapeutic approach.

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Truneckova, D. & Viney, L. L. (2015). Therapeutic relationships in child-centered personal construct psychotherapy: experiments in constructions of self. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 28 (3), 195-209.

Journal title

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

Volume

28

Issue

3

Pagination

195-208

Language

English

RIS ID

99722

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