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Transactional
PCC-HR-2C-Transactional Analysis
Term | Definition |
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Transactionl Analysis Founder | Eric Berne |
Transactional Analysis | Relies on a variety of theories and treatment techniques borrowed from psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy, RET, psychodrama, and behavioral theapy. |
Personality Theory - Key Concepts | "Life position," "ego states," and "scripts" |
Life Positions | 1) "I'm OK" "You're OK"' 2) "I'm OK" "You're not OK"; 3) "I'm not OK" "You're OK"; and 4) "I'm not OK" "You're not OK". |
Three Ego States | The Adult - The Parent - The Child |
Script | A person's life plan. |
View of Maladaptive Behavior | Is believed to reflect an unhealthy life script, which is largely attrbutable to the negative child-rearing practices on one's parents. |
Therapeutic Goals | Emphasizes the role of childhood experiences on personality development, it also proposes that people are not entirely bound by the past. |
Therapeutic Techniques | ITA is an intellectual, insight-and-action-oriented therapy. 1) Structural analysis; 2) Transactional analysis; 3) Game analysis; & 4) Script analysis |
Structural Analysis | The client is familiarized with the concepts of TA, taught how to identify his/her three ego states, and "given permission" to express all three ego states. |
Transactional Analysis | Whatever happens between people involves a transaction between ego states. |
Three Main Transactions | Complementary, crossed, and ulterior |
Complementary Transaction | Occurs when a message sent from a particular ego state of one person evokes a response from the appropriate ego state of the other person. |
Crossed Transaction | Occurs when a communication receives a response from and/or to an inappropriate ego state. |
Ulterior Transactions | Involve two ego states in the initiator and/or responder and two different messages - a verbalized social message and an implied psychological message. |
Game Analysis | "Games" are repetitve ulterior transactions which may appear to generate intimacy and initially provide strokes, but that actually help people avoid getting close to each other. |
Script Analysis | The client's current script is identified, often with the aid of a "script cheklist", and the therapist helps the client develop autonomous (scriptless) behavior. |