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Estimates of Change in a Depressive Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Dorothy Rowe
Dorothy Rowe*
Affiliation:
Whiteley Wood Clinic, Woofindin Road, Sheffield, S103TL
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A continuing problem in the care of patients suffering with depression is the assessment of how depressed the patient is, and how the level of depression changes over time. In clinical practice the patient is used as his own control, but the psychiatric assessment often has to be made in ways prone to the errors of subjective assessment. The psychiatrist is interested in how the depressed patient views himself and the world around him, that is, in terms of Kelly Personal Construct Theory, what constructs the patient uses to structure areas of his life and where on these constructs the patient sees himself. Personal Construct Theory and the Repertory Grid Techniques provide a useful framework for idiographic estimates of change.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 527 , October 1969 , pp. 1199 - 1200
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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Bannister, D., and Mair, J. M. M. (1968). The Evaluation of Personal Constructs. Academic Press, London and New York.Google Scholar
Kelly, G. A. (1955). The Psychology of Personal Constructs. Vols. I and II. Norton, New York.Google Scholar
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