Quite often people who are beginning their journey as a PCP therapist will want to get an idea of what an initial session might look like. From a PCP point of view, there is no one version of what would be included - every therapist will have their own way of doing it. This is what I usually try to do, so it might give a starting point to a new PCP therapist thinking about what they could do, or would never do. My aim is to stimulate thinking, rather than to say that this is how to go about it. Over time, each therapist will develop their own style of a usual first session.

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Never, never, never give advice. A paper from Tom Ravenette. Ep.8

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This episode is based on a short summary of the PCP approach to psychotherapy from David Winter. This is in answer to a question often asked when people are coming to the end of their foundation course in PCP: What is the PCP approach in therapy?ReferenceWinter, D. A., Winter, D. A. and Reed, N. (Eds.) (2016). The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology.

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Every day, we make more predictions than we could count. This episode is a reminder that making any prediction involves a lot more construing than is immediately obvious. We need to think about that if we are trying to help someone. Kelly suggests that if we pay attention to what is not being predicted as well as what is, then we have a better chance of understanding their construing.References:Kelly, G.A. (1963). A Theory of Personality. New York: Norton.Ross Green's website is https://livesinthebalance.org/