Although the so-called 'cognitive move' in psychology and the development of constructivist approaches of all kinds have changed psychology considerably over the last decades, Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) and the repertory grid technique have preserved the quality of a challenge.The grid method today is used in many different fields. While applications in the original field of counselling are still important, there are a wide range of other applications in medical diagnosis, personnel placement and development, market research, town planning, development of knowledge bases and expert systems, etc. However, although the grid method has been accepted and found useful both in PCP and beyond, it still remains a method for 'insiders' because in the past it has been difficult to obtain a thorough introduction and supervised training.This book is intended to fill the gap. It begins with a short introduction to the theoretical background and moves on to discuss typical steps of the grid method before it describes selected variants. While the existing literature is mainly concerned with the analysis of grid data, the present book stresses the processes leading up to the collection of data. The initial focus is on how meaningful data can be produced. In the description and discussion of the process of data collection, special attention is given to the typical problems beginners experience experimenting with the grid interview.

A user-friendly introduction to the powerful mental mapping tool of repertory grid technique. Repertory grid technique is a system for identifying, in detail, what you or anyone else really thinks about an issue. You can use it as a tool for personal discovery, as a device for team building activities, or as a problem-solving aid. Written as a DIY guide, with a friendly expert sitting beside you, this book will teach you the technique of repertory grids step by step. Here you'll find all the information you need, alongside lots of worked examples and helpful exercises that you can use to check your understanding. The answers are in the back! If you want additional practice and resources a website that supports this book can be found at www.wiley.co.uk/easyguide Professor Devi Jankowicz is one of the leading authorities on occupational applications of personal construct theory and repertory grid technique. He has written this guide for psychology students and researchers; education students; personnel practitioners; as well as managers in the workplace. "This book's title may seem a contradiction in terms to readers who have seen the repertory grid as dauntingly complex. However, the book lives up to its title in being a very user-friendly introduction to the technique, written in a chatty style, and including numerous practical exercises, mostly not requiring use of computer software." - David Winter University of Hertfordshire and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

This is a book about a technique called Repertory Grid. Grid technique was devised and nurtured by academic psychologists, but in recent years there has been an enormous upsurge of interest in Grid on the part of industrial users. At its simplest., Grid provides a way of doing research into problems - almost any problems - in a more precise, less biased, way than any other research method. More subtle uses of Grid have made it possible to evaluate training, facilitate negotiations, resolve conflicts, assemble teams, coach and counsel people with problems. The speed at which the news about Grid has got around British industry is astonishing; demand for seminars and articles on the subject grows apace. yet hitherto there has been no coordinated account of the use of Grid written for the industrial user. This book attempts to fill the gap.

The (Repertory) Grid Interview is the best-known method of Personal Construct Psychology founded by George A. Kelly in 1955. Today it has applicable significance for experts in a wide range of disciplines, particularly educational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and media scientists who wish to produce a differentiated and structured picture of personal constructs people use to create their subjective worlds.Because there are already guides for administrating, and softwaretools for statistically analyzing Grid Interviews available, but, as yet, no methodical advice or assistance in analyzing and understanding the data gained, this practical and application-oriented volume endeavours to close this gap.How can unusual constructs be recognized; how are cluster statistics or bio-plot graphs read; how can psychological sense be made from factor loadings? GridPractice answers these and other questions along with offering helpful exercises, materials and other information.

The spread of sophisticated computer packages and the machinery on which to run them has meant that procedures which were previously only available to experienced researchers with access to expensive machines and research students can now be carried out in a few seconds by almost every undergraduate. Understanding and Using Advanced Statistics provides the basis for gaining an understanding of what these analytic procedures do, when they should be used, and what the results provided signify. This comprehensive textbook guides students and researchers through the transition from simple statistics to more complex procedures with accessible language and illustration.

'The Long Interview' focuses on one of the most powerful and efficient of these methods, the intensive interview. The intensive interview is a sharply focused and rapid process that seeks to diminish the indeterminacy and redundancy that attends more unstructured research processes.