> We used a dyadic elicitation procedure in order to discover how
> neglected children (ages 7-17) made sense out of their social world.
> Most but not all children were capable of performing this
> task. Once constructs were elicited, they were written on laminated
> cards and placed at either end of a 3" X 3' cardborad label-line.
> On the line, from left to right, were 5 lables:" all the time,
> sometimes, don't know, sometimes and all the time". Next, the child
> was asked to place role label cards under the heading
> that corresponded to (1) the applicable construct, and (2) their
> particular judgement.
>
> One word of caution: some children, particularily the young ones, had
> some difficulty understanding the concept of "ideal self." We tried
> to explain it a number of ways (Best-me, Me-how-I'd-like-to-be, ect.)
> but I'm not sure we had much success. Otherwise, the procedure
> described above worked well. The kids certainly enjoyed it!
This is very interesting. Is it published anywhere please?
Andy
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Dr Andrew Parkin, Clinical Research Fellow in Child Psychiatry,
Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester, UK.
Tel: +44 116 254 6100 Fax: +44 116 254 4127 email: ap23@leicester.ac.uk
http://www.le.ac.uk/CWIS/AD/GWINST/greenwood.html
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