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Drawing the Ideal Self (Personal Construct Psychology - PCP)

Drawing the Ideal Self (Personal Construct Psychology - PCP)

By: Heather Moran
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 Learn about Personal Construct Psychology (PCP)and how to use it in your work with Heather Moran, educational and clinical psychologist. Heather has worked with young people and professionals in a variety of roles over the past 40 years and has developed techniques for use in therapy, counselling and coaching sessions. She is trying to bring PCP to people who might not have come across it before, as well as to support the development of those who want to hone their skills with children, young people and adults. You can find out more about her work at drawingtheidealself.co.uk.Heather Moran Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • A PCP model of counselling in schools from Truneckova and Viney

    A PCP model of counselling in schools from Truneckova and Viney
    Jun 29 2025

    This episode has a focus on counselling in schools but the principles will also be useful for other counselling work. Truneckova and Viney’s model is laid out nicely in their paper and I summarise it here.


    References:


    Deborah Truneckova & Linda L. Viney (2012) Personal construct psychology

    model of school counselling delivery, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 40:5, 431-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2012.718739


    Cummins & Moran (2023) The PCP Pocketbook of Personal Construct Psychology Techniques


    Moran (2023) PCP in Pictures. Free via drawingtheidealself.co.uk
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    35 mins
  • Dementia and the construing system Ep.52

    Dementia and the construing system Ep.52
    May 29 2025

    This episode focuses on construing in dementia and the challenges that presents to the carer, particularly if they are caring for a parent. I refer to a paper by Mike Bender and Sally Robbins who write about the impact of dementia on construing and on the construing system. The implications of changes in the construing of the person and their child are significant.
    If you work with people who would be described as having difficulties with anger, there is a new lost cost book out from Peter Cummins and Diane Allen at the Coventry Constructivist Centre: A Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Anger using Personal Construct Psychology. It is available only on Amazon because that keeps our costs to a minimum level and we don't need to make the book more expensive. You can use this link or do a search on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/ilpCNc0.

    References

    Bender, M. and Robbins, S. (2006). Making sense of dementia Ch. 10 in Caputi, P, (Ed.) Personal Construct Psychology: New Ideas.

    Mitchell, W. (2009) Somebody I Used to Know.
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    38 mins
  • Single session PCP therapy

    Single session PCP therapy
    Apr 30 2025

    This episode is about the PCP way of doing a useful therapy session in a one-off session. The evidence for using a single session, or One-at-a-time therapy is that a single session can be helpful. Tom Ravenette has a useful paper on this which I use in this episode but you can also take a look at Windy Dryden’s model.

    References:

    Personal construct Psychology and the assessment of young people: the ‘one-off’ interview. Ch. 13 in Ravenette, T. (1999). Personal Construct Theory in Educational Psychology. A Practitioner’s View.


    Windy Dryden Single Session Therapy on You Tube:

    https://youtu.be/wIcuOVOABRw?feature=shared

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_XmacU83U
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    27 mins
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