The 9th Australasian 
Personal Construct Psychology Conference
July 3rd to 5th, 2000

"Beyond the Y2K – Construing the Future"

CONFERENCE   PROGRAMME

Monday, July 3rd, 2000

8.30 – 9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.00 – 9.15 a.m.
 Opening Addresses –
Julie Ellis-Scheer, Acting Head, School of Health and Human Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo 
Professor Les Kilmartin, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean, La Trobe University, Bendigo
9.15 – 10.00 a.m.
 Keynote Paper –
Prof Richard C. Bell, University of Melbourne 
Why do Statistics with Repertory Grids?
10.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Morning Tea
10.30 – 11.15 a.m.
 Chris Stevens 
Coming to Insight
11.15 – 12.00 p.m.
 Peter Caputi & Chris Stevens
Testing the Bipolarity of Constructs: A comparison of repertory grid technique and multiple sorting technique
12.00 – 1.00 p.m.
Lunch
1.00 – 1.45 p.m. Heather Foster & Linda L. Viney
Meanings of Menopause: Changing Lives 
1.45 – 2.30 p.m.
 Paula Eustace
Construing Caring in a Critical Care Context.
2.30 – 3.15 p.m.
 Sharon Mickan & Sylvia Rodger
Constructing a Model of Teamwork
3.15 – 3.45 p.m.
Afternoon Tea
3.45 – 4.30 p.m.
 Bernie Whitaker
Cortical Association-Limbic Forebrain constructed in Imagery and Procedural Pain Management in Children.
4.30 – 5.30 p.m.
 Philo Café –
"Is PCP Psychotherapy possible?" - Host: Prof Bill Warren, University of Newcastle

Tuesday, July 4th, 2000

9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
 Keynote Paper –
Jacqui Costigan, La Trobe University, Bundoora 
The Victorian Personal Construct Association: the history of its experience cycles – extensions, constrictions and productions – since 1984
9.45 – 10.15 a.m.
 John Lipscomb
The Context of Work Situation upon Attitudes to Organisational Rewards
10.15 – 10.45 a.m.
Morning Tea
10.45 – 11.45 a.m.
 Keynote Address –
Professor Bob Neimeyer, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Grief and Meaning Reconstruction: Personal Construct Contributions
11.45 – 12.15 p.m.
 Beverly M. Walker, Jocelyn Harper, Peter Caputi & C. Lloyd
Technology Transference Operationalised by using Repertory Grids
12.15 – 1.15 p.m.
Lunch
1.15 – 1.45 p.m.
 Rebekah Bell and Jill Francis
Construct Validity of Cognitive Complexity Scores derived by Repertory Grids: An exploratory analysis.
1.45 – 2.15 p.m.
 Linda L. Viney, Peter Caputi & David Webster
Computerised Content Analysis Scales: Their Use in Personal Construct Research.
2.15 – 2.45 p.m
 Nadia Crittenden
Using a PCP Approach to Build and Establish the Stability of Concepts
2.45 – 3.15 p.m.
Afternoon Tea
3.15 – 3.45 p.m
 Lisbeth G. Lane and Linda L. Viney
Meanings of a Breast Cancer Diagnosis: the role of others in validating helpful constructions of the cancer experience
3.45 – 4.15 p.m.
 Julie Watkinson
A Study of Women’s Perspectives on Mid-life and Psychotropic Medication Use
4.15 – 4.45 p.m.
 Chris Stevens
Crooked paths to insight - loose and tight construing: Discussion
4.45 - 5.30 p.m.
 Meeting –
Australasian Personal Construct Group / Australian Psychological Society PCP Interest Group
   
7.00 pm - ???
 Conference Dinner 
at 'Chinno's Cafe Bar @ La Trobe Bendigo'

Wednesday, July 5th, 2000

9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
 Keynote Paper –
Prof Beverly M. Walker, University of Wollongong 
Nonvalidation vs. (In)validation: Implications for Theory and Practice
9.45 – 10.15 a.m.
 Bob Green
Construing Crime and Violence
10.15 – 10.30 a.m.
Morning Tea
10.30 – 11.00 a.m.
 Denis Travers
Using Constructs for Self-appraisal: A Tool for Social Work Practitioners
11.00 – 11.30 p.m.
 Deborah Truneckova & Linda Viney
Making a Difference: Personal Construct Practice with Children and Adolescents
11.30 – 12.00 p.m.
 Carole Carter & Linda Viney
Counselling People who have been Sexually Assaulted: a constructivist model of counsellors’ responses to client disclosure
12.00 – 12.30 p.m.
 Closing Session

 
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