ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the personal construct approach to therapy in the context of individual work with adults who stutter. The early stages of therapy focuses on the development of sociality, the ability to understand that others may have very different viewpoints and major concerns and cannot share their own particular and intense interest in what is happening to their speech. Most therapists, through some means or other, will be attempting to help a person’s stuttering in the context of their understanding of them as a whole. The chapter summarizes factors which seem to help. Changing one’s approach to a situation which is recurrently associated with stuttering often requires a change of focus. Although reconstruction for each client will be on a very personal basis, it is possible to pin-point some specific areas where change seems necessary for many and suggest some means by which we might help a person who stutters to look at something in a new light.
