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Previous research has indicated the unique contribution that the interaction between looked after children and their foster carers might have on young people’s behaviour, emotional well-being and subsequent placement stability. Furthermore, there may be differences in the way in which young people and their foster carers view a typical family. Despite this, there is a noticeable absence of studies which have specifically explored the foster carer-child relationship, particularly in terms of how their individual perspectives might be negotiated within their interpersonal relationship. The current study therefore aimed to address this gap. Three foster carer-child dyads were recruited from a local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, with young people aged between 8 and 16 years. A Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) approach was adopted. Participants each completed an individual interview, facilitated by Perceiver Element Grids (PEGs; Procter, 2002) in which interpersonal construing was explored. Looked after children and their foster carers were then interviewed together to share and discuss their completed PEGs. Interview transcripts were analysed using Thematic Analysis and PCP concepts were used to analyse the interactional processes between young people and their carers. The study highlighted a shared sense of fragmentation across participants’ accounts, with both looked after children and their carers reporting a sense of inauthenticity in the way they negotiated their interpersonal relationships. Differences in the way in which ‘family’ was perceived was also highlighted, with young people expressing a sense of ambivalence regarding their desire to be integrated into their foster family, whilst also retaining a connection to their birth family. These themes were supported in their interactions and co-constructional processes. The findings are discussed in relation to the relevant literature and clinical implications. Methodological limitations and directions for future research are also presented.

Ethical decision-making is an important but challenging aspect of the role of a clinical psychologist. Little research has been conducted concerning how clinical psychologists make ethical decisions, with even less known about how trainees manage the process during professional training. The current study aimed to examine how trainees make ethical decisions, and how this process differs between more and less experienced trainees. Thirty-nine trainee clinical psychologists were recruited from a total of 17 doctoral training programmes in the United Kingdom. The sample recruited was demographically similar to the training population. A cross-sectional design was used to examine differences between first year (n = 19) and third year (n = 20) trainees. An online version of The Defining Issues Test questionnaire (DIT-2, Rest et al., 1999) was used to measure level of sophistication of ethical development, and individual face to face or Skype repertory grid interviews examined the integration of trainees’ personal and professional ethical decision-making construct subsystems. The vast majority of trainees were found to adopt a sophisticated approach to ethical decision-making, with half of all ethical decisions made from within a postconventional schematic approach. However, a small minority operated from within schemata based on maintenance of societal norms or personal interests. A deterioration in sophistication of thinking was demonstrated for more experienced trainees. Less experienced trainees were found to rely comparatively more heavily on their personal construct subsystems than more experienced trainees and vice versa. Increased integration between the subsystems over the course of training was demonstrated. The study demonstrates support for an acculturation process occurring throughout training. Implications of this and ideas for future research are discussed.

<p>I studien har en relativt ovanlig intervjumetod, Repertory Grid Technology använts för att ge några blivande fysiklärares syn på god fysikundervisning. Metoden inspirerar till användning i många andra sammanhang. Resultaten visar att god fysikundervisning bland annat uppfattas som krävande för läraren.</p>

I studien har en relativt ovanlig intervjumetod, Repertory Grid Technology använts för att ge några blivande fysiklärares syn på god fysikundervisning. Metoden inspirerar till användning i många andra sammanhang. Resultaten visar att god fysikundervisning bland annat uppfattas som krävande för läraren.

In this study, semi-structured interviews adopted from repertory grid studies are conducted with ten 5-year-old preschool children, during which children are asked to evaluate four types of construction play materials and four types of metallophones.In the study, the important design attributes of these two types of play materials preferred by preschool children are analyzed by gathering their own evaluation criteria. Based on the interview data, children&rsquo / s preferences, evaluation criteria and the reasons behind their preferences are tried to be identified. The results of the study show that, children evaluated construction play materials considering method of construction, form of the pieces, color, size, types of pieces, types of constructions, ease of construction and material. Children evaluated metallophones considering color, placement of the keys, sound, being in the openbeing closed, form, size, storage of the mallets, weight, size of the mallets, form of the keys, coding, number of mallets, number of keys, height and material. The study also includes the analysis of the relationships between children&rsquo / s evaluation criteria for each product group and comparison of the evaluation criteria related to construction play materials and metallophones.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-11-08T12:13:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gizella Menezes Rodrigues.pdf: 3523699 bytes, checksum: a03ab2961b166a4be570a951a4cb420b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-08T12:13:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gizella Menezes Rodrigues.pdf: 3523699 bytes, checksum: a03ab2961b166a4be570a951a4cb420b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-24 / The physics teaching is being criticisms target, because, beyond emphasize mathematicians aspects, it presents the concepts in out of context and unarticulated way, especially the energy concept. So, this article had as objective to promove more articulation between the different kinds of energy concepts by means of use of experiments. The development of this article is fundamented in the Theory of Personal Constructs, by George Kelly (1963), and it uses the repertory grid and the concept maps as instruments to collect data. The didactical intervention was structured in six meetings, starting with the pre-tests application, aiming to identify the students initial concepts in relation to the broached themes, followed of experimental activities, aiming the fragmentation observed in the students cognitive structure in relation to the energy concept understanding. Finally, pos-test were applied to verify possible changing’s happened in the students construction system. The results indicated that the students passed to articulate more concepts of different kinds of energy boarded, enlarged the range of convenience some constructs and passed to use new constructs, which corresponded to a less fragmented and more significant learning in relation to the concept of energy. / O ensino de física vem sendo alvo de críticas, pois, além de enfatizar os aspectos matemáticos, apresenta os conceitos de modo descontextualizado e desarticulado, especialmente o conceito de energia. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo promover uma maior articulação entre os conceitos dos diferentes tipos de energia mediante o uso de experimentos. O desenvolvimento deste trabalo está fundamentado na Teoria dos Construtos Pessoais, de George Kelly (1963), e utiliza a matriz de repertório e os mapas conceituais como instrumentos para a cleta de dados. A intervenção didática foi estruturada em seis encontros, iniciando com a aplicação de pré-testes, a fim de identificar as concepções iniciais dos alunos em relação à temática abordada, seguida de atividades experimentais, visando minimizar a fragmentação observada na estrutura cognitiva dos alunos em relação à compreensão do conceito de energia. Finalmente, foram aplicados pós-testes para verificar possíveis alterações ocorridas no sistema de construção dos alunos. Os resultados indicaram que os alunos passaram a articular mais os conceitos dos diferentes tipos de energia abordados, ampliaram a faixa de conveniência de alguns construtos e passaram a utilizar novos construtos, o que correspondeu a uma aprendizagem menos fragmentada e mais significativa em relação ao conceito de energia.

The purpose of the present investigation was to investigate the relationship of cognitive complexity, as measured by a quantitative index of human movement responses, and the number of different constructs in one psychological system.

George Kelly has stated that persons place interpretations, or constructs, on what they perceive. Past research has indicated that subjects more meaningfully apply their own personal constructs to persons and situations than constructs supplied from other sources. This study attempted to confirm previous findings. Sixty-three university students used their own personal constructs, elicited from the Role Construct Repertory Test, and supplied instrumental-expressive role constructs to interpret and rate 12 actors portraying instrumental and expressive behaviors in six videotaped scenes. The purpose of this study is to compare the meaningfulness to subjects of stereotypic terms in a sex-role inventory to the meaningfulness of the subjects' own personal constructs when interpreting typical masculine- and feminine-typed behavior.