TY - JOUR
T1 - Is trauma the product of over- or under-elaboration?
T2 - A critique of the personal construct model of posttraumatic stress disorder
AU - Sermpezis, Christos
AU - Winter, David
N1 - Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A clinical sample of people diagnosed with PTSD (n = 36) was tested using repertory grids and questionnaires. The study examined the viability of the personal construct model of PTSD (Sewell et al., 1996). Results did not support the model, and the authors critique the methodology previously used to support it. In contrast to the model's alleged under-elaboration of the traumatic event as a causative factor of PTSD, the present study provided evidence of the exact opposite-namely, that the traumatic event appears as over-elaborated within the construct systems of traumatized individuals. New ways of analysis as well as new technologies are proposed.
AB - A clinical sample of people diagnosed with PTSD (n = 36) was tested using repertory grids and questionnaires. The study examined the viability of the personal construct model of PTSD (Sewell et al., 1996). Results did not support the model, and the authors critique the methodology previously used to support it. In contrast to the model's alleged under-elaboration of the traumatic event as a causative factor of PTSD, the present study provided evidence of the exact opposite-namely, that the traumatic event appears as over-elaborated within the construct systems of traumatized individuals. New ways of analysis as well as new technologies are proposed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=75649137672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10720530903113862
DO - 10.1080/10720530903113862
M3 - Article
SN - 1072-0537
VL - 22
SP - 306
EP - 327
JO - Journal of Constructivist Psychology
JF - Journal of Constructivist Psychology
IS - 4
ER -