Conclusion
In this chapter wehavetried to introduce the reader to a range of between-session assignments that are congruent with the spiritand focus of personal construct therapy, which aims to help clients articulate, elaborate, and extend the network of meanings by which they construct a sense of self. We believe that these methods, and the larger repertory of constructivist interventions from which they are drawn, make a useful and empirically informed contribution to the practice of psychotherapy, and invite their broader use by therapists of other traditions.
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Neimeyer, R.A., Winter, D.A. (2007). Personal Construct Therapy. In: Kazantzis, N., LĽAbate, L. (eds) Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29681-4_10
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