Modelling Identity Disturbance: A Network Analysis of the Personality Structure Questionnaire (PSQ).

Due to the relevance of identity disturbance to personality disorder this study sought to complete a network analysis of a well validated measure of identity disturbance; the personality structure questionnaire (PSQ). A multi-site and cross-national methodology created an overall sample of = 1549. The global network structure of the PSQ was analysed and jointly estimated networks were compared across four subsamples (UK versus Italy, adults versus adolescents, clinical versus community and complex versus common presenting problems).

Delivering cognitive analytic consultancy to community mental health teams: Initial practice-based evidence from a multi-site evaluation.

Objectives: This study sought to employ the hourglass model to frame the methodological evolution of outcome studies concerning 5-session cognitive analytic consultancy (CAC).

Design: Pre-post mixed methods evaluation (study one) and mixed methods case series (study two).

Methods: In study one, three sites generated acceptability and pre-post effectiveness outcomes from N = 58 care dyads, supplemented with qualitative interviewing.

Confronting abusers: the opinions of clinicians and survivors.

Confrontation of an abuser is often regarded as a powerful process in clinical work with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This paper explores direct and symbolic forms of survivors confronting their abusers via a review of the current literature and the self-report of 12 female survivors, post-therapy. Six of the survivors had chosen to directly confront their abusers and six had not.

Personal constructs, childhood sexual abuse and revictimization.

Within the theoretical framework of Ryle's Procedural Sequence Object Relations Model and Kelly's Personal Construct Theory, this study investigates sex-role polarization of incest survivors and the centrality of abuse within survivors' constructs of men that may contribute to revictimization. Repertory grid methodology was used with 40 female survivors of childhood sexual abuse and 28 non-abused women. Grid measures and psychometric measures were compared between groups of women who had and had not experienced childhood sexual abuse, revictimized and non-revictimized survivors, and survivors who had and had not experienced incestuous abuse.