Kelly Philosophical Position

• • A philosophical position emphasizing that behavior is caused by one’s perceptions rather than by external reality. (Rejected this)

  Phenomenology
• • A person’s way of interpreting, explaining, and predicting events

  Personal Constructs
• Personal construct theory does not try to explain nature. Rather, it is a theory of people’s construction of events: that is, their personal inquiry into their world. It is “a psychology of the human quest. It does not say what has or will be found, but proposes rather how we might go about looking for it”
• Kelly, more than any other personality theorist, but like carl rogers, formulated a theory that encourages its own demise
• • Kelly’s view that events can be looked at (construed) from a different (alternative) perspective.
  • assumes that the piece-by-piece accumulation of facts does not add up to truth; rather, it assumes that facts can be looked at from different perspectives.

  Constructive Alternativism
• Kelly believed that the person, not the facts, holds the key to an individual’s future.
• Facts and events do not dictate conclusions; rather, they carry meanings for us to discover