Journeying Into the Personal Constructs of Children

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Abstract
In a personal construct approach to children, two aspects of the theory are highlighted. First, the theory is written on a number of levels that include the more formal structural theory as well as an implicit theory of experience. It is on the experiential level that the concerns with children are most clearly revealed. Second, there is a profound commitment, in personal construct theory, to a psychological understanding of the human being as a person. In the child area this results in a commitment to viewing the child as a complete person in his or her own right rather than seeing the child as a transitional phase of the truly complete adult. The last section of the paper is concerned with a number of alternative methodologies for the study of children as well as a caution concerning construct theory being construed as just another cognitive psychology.

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