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Programme
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The program is arranged over four days
from the afternoon of Monday 16th July through to the afternoon of Thursday
19th July. It is comprised of paid
workshops [held on Monday morning], posters, papers, keynote addresses, and
workshops held within the program.
Papers are divided into four streams with
presentations scheduled to minimize conflict within streams
Clinical & Counselling
General, Theoretical & Methodological
Organizational & Sport
Educational
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| Keynote Addresses |
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Robert A. Neimeyer
(University of Memphis, USA)
Grief, Loss and the Quest for Meaning
Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D., is Professor and
Director of Psychotherapy Research in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an
active clinical practice. Neimeyer has published 20 books, including Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of
Loss, and serves as Editor of the journal Death Studies. The author of over 300 articles and book chapters,
and a frequent workshop presenter, he is currently working to advance a more
adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. Neimeyer served as President of the
Association for Death Education and Counseling and Chair of the International
Work Group for Death, Dying, & Bereavement.
In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he has been granted the
Eminent Faculty Award by the University of Memphis, and made a Fellow of the
American Psychological Association.
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Trevor Butt (University of Huddersfield, UK)
The Legacy of George Kelly: Reasons to be Cheerful
Trevor Butt, Ph.D., is Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. He trained as a clinical
psychologist and retains an interest in psychological therapies. He was Chair
of the British Psychological Society's Psychotherapy Section in 2001. He is
interested in phenomenological methods and existential psychology and their
relationship with Personal Construct Theory. He is co-editor of Personal
Construct Theory and Practice, and is the author of Understanding People
(Palgrave 2004), George Kelly and the Psychology of Personal Constructs
(Palgrave in press) and, with Viv Burr,
Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology (Whurr 2004).
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Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany)
Can PCP change the world?
Reflections on the power of a
theory
Jörn
Scheer, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of
Giessen, Germany. He has published extensively in the fields of psychosomatic
medicine, psychotherapy, medical and health psychology, and of course in
personal construct psychology. He now lives in his home town of Hamburg and devotes much of his time to
promoting personal construct psychology, mainly through the Internet. He
co-edited the first introduction to the repertory grid technique in German and
is co-editor of the e-journal Personal Construct Theory & Practice and the Internet
Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology. His latest edited books dealt
with cross-cultural aspects of PCP and with PCP and the arts.
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David Winter (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
[with]
Emma Summerfield (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Judy Duncan (Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS
Trust, UK)
Love Hurts: Personal Construct Perspectives on Love,
Validation and Conflict
David Winter, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical
Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, U.K., where he directs the
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He is also Head of Clinical Psychology
Services for Barnet in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health
Trust. He has employed personal construct psychology in his clinical practice
within the British National Health Service and in research for over 45 years,
and has approximately 100 publications in this area. These include Personal
Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice: Theory, Research and Applications
(Routledge, 1992/1994) and Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory,
Practice, and Research (edited with Linda Viney: Whurr, 2005). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological
Society and past Chair of its Psychotherapy Section; a registered personal
construct psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy, Chair of its
Research Committee and past Chair of its Experiential Constructivist Section.
He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and Research Editor of the
European Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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| Papers & Posters |
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| Clinical / Counselling Stream |
Poster
Bronwyn
Seaborn, Linda L. Viney, Deborah Truneckova & Peter Caputi
University
of Wollongong, NSW
PCT
Group Work with Abused Children: an Evaluation
Papers
Alexandra L. Adame, Anthony Pavlo, Brendon M. Smith, Hugo J. Schielke, Larry M. Leitner
Miami University, USA
Self-other
Permanence in Psychotherapy
Alexandra L. Adame, Larry M. Leitner
Miami University, USA
Reverence
and Recovery: Experiential Personal Construct Psychotherapy and Transpersonal
Reverence
Cathy Bentley, Linda Viney,
University of Wollongong, NSW
Reconstructing identities: A
personal construct approach to unearthing the identities of family caregivers
of people with serious mental illnesses.
Claudia
Roció Bueno Castro, General
Attorney of the State of Mexico
Gloria
Margarita Gurrola Peña, José Antonio Virseda Heras, &
Patricia Balcázar Nava, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
Self-construction in a sample of
raped women.
Nick Gerrish & Lyndall Steed,
Curtin University of Technology, WA
Biographical
Grids: Creative Adaptations and Applications of the Method with Bereaved
Mothers
Donald K.
Granvold, Larry D. Watson
The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Whose
Baby is It? Post-modern Influence in
Adoption Practices
Donald K.
Granvold
The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Intimate Connections: Constructivist
Couple Therapy
Stephanie Lewis Harter, Bryton D.
Schaffner, Tyne N. Carrington, and Benjamin D.
Williams
Texas Tech University, USA
Gregory W. Harter
University of Texas Permian Basin, USA
Analysis of self descriptions: Characteristics related to sexual abuse
history, anticipations of other’s evaluations, distress, and well-being.
Chris Laming,
Monash University, Vic
Lloyd Davies,
Latrobe Community Health Service,
Vic
Anticipations of Hope: Stories from
the Shed.
Chris Laming,
Monash University, Gippsland, Vic
Challenging men’s violence and
abuse: Comparisons of PCP used in Scotland, England and Australia
Hilary A. Maitland & Linda L.
Viney
The University of Wollongong, NSW
Disclosing
childhood sexual assault in close relationships: the meanings and emotions
women associate with their experiences and their lives now
Anthony Pavlo & Larry Leitner
Miami University, USA
Viable alternatives to psychiatric
diagnosis
Gloria
Margarita Gurrola Peña, Patricia
Balcázar Nava
Autonomous University of the State
of Mexico
Claudia
Roció Bueno Castro.
General Attorney of the State of Mexico
Self evolution in women who live
violence
Gloria
Margarita Gurrola Peña, José Antonio
Virseda Heras, Patricia
Balcázar Nava, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
Kenneth
Sewell , University of North Texas,
USA
Which is the dilemma? Analysis of
dilemma constructs among women who survived marital violence.
Gloria
Margarita Gurrola Peña, José Antonio
Virseda Heras, Patricia
Balcázar Nava, Martha Patricia Bonilla Muñoz.,Autonomous University of the
State of Mexico
Kenneth
Sewell, University of North Texas,
USA
The aggressor construction among
women who have lived in a marital violence situation.
Stephen
Rayner & Linda Viney
University
of Wollongong
Maintaining mental health in the
face of trauma
Andzela Steinberga,
University of Latvia
Similarities and differences between
working with ASD (Autistic spectrum disorders)
clients and clients with severe stuttering during speech therapy in the frame
of PCP.
Barbara Tooth,
Brisbane
Challenges
in educating the mental health workforce to help rather than hinder: How PCP can
help educate about recovery and recovery orientated practice
Deborah Truneckova,
NSW State Department of Education
Linda L. Viney,
Uni of Wollongong, NSW
Small-group counselling with primary
school children
Linda L. Viney,
Uni of Wollongong, NSW
Deborah Truneckova,
NSW State Department of Education
Personal
Construct models of group supervision: Led and Peer
Bill
Warren
University
of Newcastle, NSW
Problems and prospects for forensic assessment and reporting from the PCP perspective
David Winter, Emma Summerfield
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Judy Duncan,
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, UK
Love Hurts: Personal Construct
Perspectives on Love, Validation and Conflict
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| Theoretical / Methodological Stream |
Peter Caputi
University of Wollongong, NSW
Using formal concept analysis to
analyse repertory grid data
Carole Carter
University of Wollongong
Exploring the Experience of
Betrayal: The possibilities of crossing
Archetypal Psychology with PCP?
Julene Denne Cook
Camperdown
Resilience Centre & Ballarat University, Vic
30 years with Pre-colonial Wathawurrong:
Prediction, Validation and Explanation via PCP.
Bob Green
Community Forensic Mental Health Service, Qld
Musing about constructs
Desley Hennessy & Beverly M.
Walker
University of Wollongong, NSW
If I’m unique, and you’re unique,
let’s be unique together
Devi
Jankowicz
University
of Bedfordshire, UK
We Need Anonymity Like We Need A Hole In the
Head: thoughts On the Implications of the Collaborative Paradigm In PCP
Spencer A. McWilliams
California State University San Marcos USA
Ontological Acceleration and Human
Agency
Antonio G. Moran,
University of the Philippines in Mindanao
On the
edge of chaos: Eliciting tacit knowledge from the conflict zones of Southern
Philippines
Otilia
Rodrigues
University
of Wollongong, NSW
Breaking
Down Cultural Barriers through Psychophotography
Helen
Ross
University
of Queenland
Nick Abel,
CSIRO
Sustainable Ecosystems
Construing Ecological Processes: Combining Personal Construct And
Mental Models Theories For The Best Of Both Worlds
Beverly M. Walker,
University of Wollongong, NSW.
David Winter,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS
Trust
Lessons
from writing an Annual Review of Psychology paper.
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| Organisational / Sport Stream |
Peter Caputi, Coral Warren
University of Wollongong, NSW
The use of the Experience Cycle in
understanding IS user behaviour.
Dorota Dobosz-Bourne
Queen Mary, University of London, UK
The Creativity Cycle as a potential
tool for dissolving gendered perceptions of professions.
Mairead
Dundas & Richard Bell
University
of Melbourne, Vic
Using
Repertory Grids in the Evaluation of Perceptions of Organizational Change.
Daniel
Gucciardi, Tim Chambers, Sandy Gordon
The University of Western Australia, WA
Construing the personal constructs of athletes and exercisers: Research
and applied perspectives
Terence
R Keen
Barton
Management, Totnes UK
Carlo Amalfitano
Netlogix, Melbourne Beach FL, USA
Helen Turnbull
Private
Practice, Plantation FL, USA
Practical
Uses of a RepGrid Methodology in the Commercial World: A Move Towards
Meaningful, Semi-Automated Feedback Utilising a New Analytical Programme.
Steven Pike
Queensland University of Technology, Qld
Destination image analysis – the use
of Kelly’s triads to elicit salient attributes
David
J Savage, Private Practice, Willaston, UK
David
Yardley, Private Practice, Chester, UK
Learning from Inspirational Coaches
Kerryn
Short & Richard Bell
University
of Melbourne, Vic
On
whom do managers depend: An investigation using Kelly’s Dependency Grid.
Robert Wright
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Devi Jankowicz
University of
Bedfordshire, UK
Making
sense of international cognitions of effective directorship in
Hong Kong and UK listed boards
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| Educational Stream |
Mary R Hedges
University of Auckland, NZ
A Personal Construct Theory of Tertiary Training Choice
Angela McGrane
Northumbria University, UK
Investigating
Student Expectations of University
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| Workshops within the Programme |
Robert A.
Neimeyer
University
of Memphis, USA
Meaning
Reconstruction & Loss
Peter Prisgrove
Private Practice, Bicton, WA
Personal construct theory and
technique in professional supervision
Jörn
Scheer
Hamburg,
Germany
Workshop: Construing stories
Miriam Stein, Private Practice,
Surry Hills, NSW
Elaine Atkinson, Private Practice,
Subiaco, WA
Ms Anne Fraser
Department for Community
Development, WA
Using
PCP
Techniques with Adolescents – More than the sum of their parts
Carlo Amalfitano
Netlogix, Melbourne Beach FL, USA
Terence
R Keen
Barton
Management, Totnes UK
Helen Turnbull
Private
Practice, Plantation FL, USA
Workshop
1.
A workshop for users: introducing HF2 an new way of processing and displaying
results of RepGrid data
Helen Turnbull
Private
Practice, Plantation FL, USA
Carlo Amalfitano
Netlogix, Melbourne Beach FL, USA
Terence
R Keen
Barton
Management, Totnes UK
Workshop
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A hands-on workshop allowing attendees to explore the HF2 programme on their
own computers, or on supplied computers (shared).
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Larry M. Leitner
(Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA)
An Introduction to Personal Construct
Psychology
This workshop will introduce you to basic
concepts and approaches associated with Kelly’s Personal Construct Psychology.
After briefly discussing the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of the
theory, we will survey both research and clinical methodologies associated with
the theory. We then will spend time sampling the theoretical, methodological,
and clinical evolution of the theory over the last few decades. The workshop
will be participant driven, in the sense that the presenter will move the
discussion in different directions, depending on the needs and interests of the
participants. Further, all sections of the workshop will include experiential
exercises as well as didactic material.
Larry M. Leitner is a Professor of
Psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (through
the Divisions of Psychotherapy and Humanistic Psychology). He also is a past
President of the Division of Humanistic Psychology and past-editor of The
Humanistic Psychologist. He has authored over 80 articles and chapters on
experiential constructivist understandings of psychopathology and psychotherapy.
He also has authored or edited three volumes, Assessing experience in
psychotherapy (with A. J. Faidley, Praeger, 1993), Critical issues in personal
construct psychotherapy (with G. Dunnett, Krieger, 1993), and Personal
construct psychology: Psychotherapy and personality (with A. W. Landfield,
Wiley, 1980).
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Spencer A. McWilliams
(California State University San Marcos USA)
Constructivist Psychology and Zen Buddhism
Although evolving from different lineages many years apart,
many constructivist issues and ideas have been foreshadowed by Buddhist
philosophy and psychology and manifest in Zen meditation practice. This workshop will explore a variety of
facets of the intriguing interface and parallels between these two
perspectives. We will begin with the
Middle Way philosophy of Madhyamika Buddhism, which addresses the question of
realism versus nihilism by demonstrating the interdependence, impermanence, and
emptiness (lack of essence) of phenomena and proposes that we view phenomena as
conventionally real but not having inherent reality. We will next consider how we might construe
the notion of self from this perspective of emptiness, applying the Zen
understanding of “no-self” to a Western view, emphasizing how we tend to reify
conventional concepts of the self and treat it as having inherent existence. This exploration will lead to consideration
and demonstration of a variety of Zen techniques that focus on awareness of
created mental processes and immediate physical sensations as a way to assist
us in seeing that phenomena, including self, lack permanent essence. We will conclude with a review of some
classic Zen texts (sutras) that help to elucidate the perspective. Throughout the workshop we will compare and
contrast the Zen concepts with relevant constructivist viewpoints, including
radical constructivism and social constructionism.
Workshop objectives:
- Identify major parallels between constructivist psychology
(including radical constructivism and social constructionism) and Buddhist
philosophy (including Buddhist psychology and Zen meditation practice).
- Define major concepts of the Middle Way philosophy of
Madhyamika Buddhism
- Distinguish the notion of “no-self” from the Zen perspective
of emptiness from the traditional Western psychology view of self
- Explain the tendency to reify conventional concepts of the
self and treat them as having inherent existence.
- Demonstrate a variety of Zen techniques that focus on
awareness of created mental processes and immediate physical sensations
- Review three classic Zen texts (sutras) in terms of their
relevance to constructivist thought.
Spence
McWilliams is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California – San
Marcos with interests in Personal Construct Psychology and Zen meditation Using
metaphors such as anarchy and idolatry his publications emphasize our personal
role in constructing our beliefs and understanding, and he has discussed
language techniques and meditation approaches that help us attend to our active
participation in creating meaning. His
current work explores the interface between Zen meditation, Buddhist psychology,
and various constructivist issues and themes.
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| Social
Outing: Lone
Pine Koala Sanctuary |
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is the world's first and
largest koala sanctuary, with over 130 koalas. Cuddle a koala anytime,
handfeed kangaroos and encounter
a large variety of Aussie wildlife, all in beautiful, natural settings.
Info: http://www.koala.net/index.htm
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| Conference
Dinner |
The conference dinner is to be held at the
acclaimed Oxleys
which floats on the Brisbane River. The dinner cost includes the meal,
transport and drinks. Info: http://www.oxleys.com.au/default.php
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