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About the
Australasian Personal Construct Group |
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The
Australasian Personal
Construct Group is devoted to the Psychology of Personal
Constructs
(PCP).
The
Psychology
of Personal Constructs was introduced in 1955 by the (North)
American psychologist George A. Kelly
as a new approach to psychology which focusses on the meanings that
people
attach to persons, situations and events they encounter. These
meanings,
the "personal constructs" of a person, serve also as guidelines for
the actions one takes to cope with the demands and challenges of life.
At the same time, Kelly designed a number of instruments to use in
research
on and assessment of personal constructs. The best known is the Repertory
Grid Technique, which now catches the interest even of
researchers
and
practitioners not based in Personal Construct Psychology. The
idiographic,
or individual centred, nature of the theory invites a qualitative
approach,
yet the Repertory Grid Technique lends itself also to a quantitative
analysis
of constructs and construct systems, thus reconciliating these
approaches that are often viewed as antagonistic.
The
Australasian Personal
Construct Group is
connected to the
Personal Construct Psychology Interest Group of the Australian
Psychological
Society (APS) . Its members live in Australia and New Zealand.
The Group
issues a
Newsletter and organises a biennial
Conference. The last one was held in Wollongong in 2010.
The
PCP
References
database originally compiled by Gabriele Chiari
(Rome) is
located at the University of Wollongong.
More
information on PCP is available through te PCP Gateway.
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