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Personal Construct Therapy was first used with people who stammer by Fransella in the late 60s and early 70s. This theory became popular with speech and language therapists because if offers a framework for understanding why changing behaviour can be difficult, even when the person is highly motivated to make the change. Personal Construct Therapy helps the client and therapist understand the psychological effects that stammering has upon the client's life. Through careful self-exploration and experimentation, the client works to increase fluency and develop a more positive attitude towards any stammering that remains.

Personal Construct Therapy has been found helpful in combination with other stammering therapy approaches, and for those who are very distressed by relatively mild stammering. This approach is used widely by speech and language therapists throughout the UK.

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Fay Fransella 1925 - 2011 Fay Fransella, who died on 14th January 2011, was a pioneer in developing the application of Personal Construct Psychology to stammering. These are some tributes to her.

Personal construct therapy: thirty years on Personal Construct Psychology emphasises that people can change. Peggy Dalton, who helped pioneer PCP and its use in a range of communication problems as well as in stammering, summarises the approach and its development (2008).

Real Change Can Be Constructed: Personal Construct Therapy in Stuttering Therapy (external link) Paper by Margaret Leahy in ISAD Online Conference 2002.

Further information about Personal Construct Psychology and practitioners:

PCP Education and Training Ltd website (external link), which includes a database of practitioners.

Specifically on stammering, Mrs Peggy Dalton, email daltonpcp@aol.com.

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