Since its appearance in the 1950s, personal construct psychology (PCP) has mainly developed as a constructivist theory of personality and a system of transforming individual meaning-making processes, largely in therapeutic contexts.[13][14][15][16][17][18] It was based around the notion of persons as scientists who form and test theories about their worlds. Therefore, it represented one of the first attempts to appreciate the constructive nature of experience and the meaning persons give to their experience.[19] Social constructionism (SC), on the other hand, mainly developed as a form of a critique,[20] aimed to transform the oppressing effects of the social meaning-making processes. Over the years, it has grown into a cluster of different approaches,[21] with no single SC position.[22] However, different approaches under the generic term of SC are loosely linked by some shared assumptions about language, knowledge, and reality.[23]