Developing transactional analysis counselling

Explains how new counsellors - and those with more experience - can develop and improve their skills within transactional analysis. Ian Stewart summarizes transactional analysis theory and examines crucial areas such as contract making, using language, and treatment tactics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Ian, 1940- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : SAGE 1996.
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : 1996.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Developing counselling.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798026606719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • I - Principles of TA
  • An Outline of TA Theory
  • Principles of TA Treatment
  • II - Thirty Ways to Develop your TA Counselling
  • First Principles
  • 1 - Presuppose the 'One-Session Cure'
  • 2 - Stay Aware of Time-Frames
  • 3 - Line up the Row of Dominoes
  • 4 - Set Clear and Flexible Boundaries
  • 5 - Ask Your Client to Draw up a Goals List
  • 6 - Analyse Life-Script with a Brief Questionnaire
  • 7 - Invite Your Client to Close Escape Hatches - Non-Routinely
  • 8 - Keep Your Case Notes as a 'Front Sheet'
  • Contract-Making
  • 9 - Distinguish Contracts from Outcomes and Actions
  • 10 - Keep Track of Multiple Outcomes: the Outcome Matrix
  • 11 - Ensure that the Contract is Sensory-Based
  • 12 - Invite Contracts that are Finishable
  • 13 - Agree Markers for Script Change
  • 14 - Keep the Contract Clear and Flexible
  • 15 - Put the Contract in Context
  • 16 - Bring the Contract Alive Through Visualisation
  • Using the Process Model
  • 17 - Be a Skilled 'Driver Detective'
  • 18 - Avoid Inviting Drivers
  • 19 - Recognise the Six Personality Adaptations
  • 20 - Confront the Process Script
  • 21 - Make and Keep Contract: the Ware Sequence
  • 22 - Get on Your Client's Wavelength: the Five Channels of Communication
  • 23 - Bring It All Together: the Complete Process Model
  • 24 - As Your Client Moves on the Process Model, Move with Her
  • Treatment Tactics
  • 25 - Encourage Discomfort and Confusion
  • 26 - Know What and When to Confront
  • 27 - Confront Softly
  • 28 - Keep Script Insights in the Past Where They Belong
  • 29 - Deal with Voices in the Head
  • 30 - If you Split People, Get Them Back Together
  • Afterword: Living the Therapeutic Relationship
  • References
  • Index.