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WORKSHOPS

Professional one-day workshops 2008
These workshops are open to professionals with an interest in PCP and its applications, and provide CPD credits for practitioners registered with the PCP Association.
September 12th: Working with Adolescents
October 9th: Beyond Words: non-verbal communication
(For more details of all workshops, please CLICK HERE).

PCPA Open Day

Our recent open day in London included an introduction to PCP from Peggy Dalton, a number of taster workshops on PCP methods, and Dorothy Rowe discussing her latest book on sibling relationships – My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend.
Read about the open day HERE

Advanced Training in PCP - London and Coventry

We are pleased to invite applications to start advanced training in PCP in London commencing January 2009. We are currently re-designing the courses to create a more flexible modular pathway from September 2009. Students joining the advanced units in January will be building credits towards diploma status. Click HERE for full details of the current Diploma programmes or contact Cathy Sparkes the diploma course administrator for more details.
PCPA are delighted to introduce a new advanced and Diploma course planned for Coventry starting this autumn. The course will run on Thursday afternoons, tutored and managed by members the NHS Psychology Services team led by Peter Cummins. The course will be based at Gulson Hospital in Coventry. Click HERE for information and contact details.

New papers available on line

Mary Frances has published a new paper - Stages of Group Development – a PCP approach - in the online journal Personal Construct Theory and Practice.
The new edition of the journal also features a review by Fay Fransella of Trevor Butt’s new book: George Kelly - The Psychology of Personal Constructs
You can access the papers at www.personal-construct.net/journal  using a free password obtainable from joern.scheer@joern-scheer.de
Read an abstract of Mary’s paper HERE

Autumn Foundation Course

These courses are the first level of PCP training and provide a comprehensive introduction to PCP theory and practice.
The dates are:

All courses are held in West London. Further details are available from Peggy Dalton

Constructive Leadership

PCPA recently held a successful workshop exploring PCP and leadership. Read the workshop notes HERE.

PCP in Organisations

Mary Frances will be running a 3-day course on PCP in Organisations in October. The course is designed to introduce PCP theory and to explore its applications to many aspects of working life. Please click HERE for details.

Midlands PCP Study Days

These days are open to people who have completed a PCP foundation course
Next date: to be arranged
Venue: Large group room, Phillip Ward, Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry. (free parking)
10am to 4pm, £10 to cover refreshments (£5 trainees and assistants)
Please contact Sally Robbins sally.robbins@coventrypct.nhs.uk

Northern  PCP Research Group Meetings

The Northern PCP Research Group has been meeting now for nearly 20 years in York as a forum for discussion, supervision and personal development for people who use PCP in their research, work or lives.  You do not need any expertise.
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Children in Transition

Richard Cocks writes: For the last six years, I have been running transition groups during the summer terms for children moving between primary + secondary schools in the authority.  This work has been in collaboration with a psychodrama therapist.
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Jonathan D. Raskin & Sara K. Bridges (Eds.) (2008): Studies In Meaning 3: Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World.
New York: Pace University Press. $40
Publisher's info:
Constructivist psychotherapy remains somewhat unfamiliar to many clinicians, despite offering a variety of innovative and practical therapeutic approaches and techniques. In this volume, constructivist psychology is presented as it relates to everyday practice. The chapters provide many examples of what constructivist psychotherapy looks like in the real world, showing how one can make the transition from constructivist theory to constructivist practice with ease. Constructivist therapy often gets labeled as too theoretical and lacking in clinical specificity. Yet here is a volume with chapters that succinctly and cogently explicate basic theoretical concepts and then demonstrate them with vivid case examples taken from applied experience in the field.

Conference on application of repertory grids in business settings

Leipzig, November 2008.
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