I'm having some difficulty understanding what you are attempting here. You
appear to be wanting students to form constructs about something about
which they have no experience (what is hard and what is less hard).
I wonder if the basic purpose of the study needs clarification? I would be
asking myself what what I am trying to achieve here and why.
John Mayes
At 23:06 21/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Hello again
I guess I wasn't all to clear in my last post. I would use real clients,
but some of the subjects I will interview haven't seen any client so far
-they're still studying. So I need a group of elements that enable me to
compare between those who have had therapeutic experience and those who
have not.A little bit harder, isn't it?
Esteban Laso
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Earlier we exchanged the following
Dear Esteban,
Have you thought of using clients as elements? This could be done by asking
a series of questions to elicit elements such as those below:
give the name (nickname, initials) of a client who is a very hard case
give the name (nickname, initials) of another client who is a very hard
case
give the name (nickname, initials) of another client who is a very hard
case
give the name (nickname, initials) of a client who is a much less hard case
give the name (initials, nickname) of another client who is a much less
hard case
give the name (initials, nickname) of another client who is a much less
hard case
give the name (nickname, initials) of a client whose case is middling or
variable
give the name (nickname, initials) of another client whose case is middling
or variable
give the name (nickname, initials) of another client whose case is middling
or variable
Once you have the names (elements) you could compare and contrast them in
terms of their diagnostics, symptoms, etc.
This is a technique which is facilitated in the repertory grid interviewing
software package called Enquire Within.
John Mayes
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You Wrote
Hi
Like a said some time before, I want to investigate the constructions of
what's a "hard case" among the students psychotherapists. I have considered
using a RepGrid, but i'm completely stuck about what could be the elements.
Finally I've made a list of 12 short descriptions of circunstances and
people one is likely to find in practice, in terms of their "diagnostics",
their "symptoms", etc; but I think that even these "short" phrases are too
long and complex to be used as elements in the construct-formation stage of
the Rep.
What do you think? Any suggestion will be helpful!
Esteban Laso
At 23:06 21/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>
Hello again
I guess I wasn't all to clear in my last post. I would use real clients,
but some of the subjects I will interview haven't seen any client so far
-they're still studying. So I need a group of elements that enable me to
compare between those who have had therapeutic experience and those who
have not.A little bit harder, isn't it?
Esteban Laso
<mailto:eslaso@ibm.net>eslaso@ibm.net
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