>A useful route to core construal and its stability that I researched
>recently is through
>change events of a kind that most people can access very easily: episodes
>of disillusionment. These could be directed to periods of life: about
>childhood, about adulthood or about oneself, significant others, etc. They
>illustrate nicely how one sometimes may and sometimes not move on and
>reconstrue, seen down the years. In my own research people differed
>greatly: some tripped up over the same core construal again and again,
>where others had moved on. It would make a good 'class' exercise, to
>compare and contrast.
>
>An alternative is Pope and Denicolo's (1993?) 'snake' which is to do with
>turning points in one's life, again events that have been a spur to
>reconstruction.
>
>Hope it goes well.
>
>Gwyneth Daniel
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