Abstract
In the rapidly expanding field of social casework there have been sundry attempts to study the influence of various factors on the professional interview. The present study has demonstrated the feasibility of investigating the conceptual processes involved in casework assessment using Kelly's theory of personal constructs. Two random samples of twenty‐five patients were drawn from a cohort of 511 persons who had attempted suicide in Edinburgh. The concepts used by a psychiatric social worker to describe these patients were intercorrelated and analysed using McQuitty's Elementary Linkage Analysis. Two main types of construct were elicited; the first relating to the impact of the patient on the psychiatric social worker; the second reflecting the professional formulation of the case.
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