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Gerontological Counseling Grid: Making Judgments About Older Adults
Author(s) -
VACC NICHOLAS A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1987.tb00733.x
Subject(s) - repertory grid , psychology , construct (python library) , personal construct theory , test (biology) , social psychology , applied psychology , paleontology , computer science , biology , programming language
The author describes the Gerontological Counseling Grid (GCG), an instrument for exploring experienced counselors' awareness of and judgments about older adults. Derived from Kelly's Role Construct Repertory Test, the GCG is based on the personal construct theory of understanding the way individuals make judgments and order their environments. The GCG provides a meaningful way to determine how individuals organize their implicit attitudes toward and evaluations of older adult groups. Administration procedures are presented and a case analysis of a GCG completed by a counselor trainee is presented.