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Developing transactional analysis counselling / Ian Stewart.

By: Stewart, Ian, 1940-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Developing counselling.Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996Description: ix, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0803979029.Subject(s): Transactional analysisDDC classification: 158.9
Contents:
I: Principles of TA -- An outline of TA theory -- Principles of TA treatment -- II: Thirty ways to develop your TA counselling -- First principles -- Presuppose the 'one-session cure' -- Stay aware of time-frames -- Line up the row of dominoes -- Set clear and flexible boundaries -- Ask your client to draw up a goals list -- Analyse life-script with a brief questionnaire -- Invite your client to close escape hatches - non-routinely -- Keep your case notes as a 'front sheet' -- Contract-making -- Distinguish contracts from outcomes and actions -- Keep track of multiple outcomes: the outcome matrix -- Ensure that the contract is sensory-based -- Invite contracts that are finishable -- Agree markers for script change -- Keep the contract clear and flexible -- Put the contract in context -- Bring the contract alive through visualisation -- Using the process model -- Be a skilled 'driver detective' -- Avoid inviting drivers -- Recognise the six personality adaptations -- Confront the process script -- Make and keep contact: the ware sequence -- Get on your client's wavelength: the five channels of communication -- Bring it all together: the complete process model -- As your client moves on the process model, move with her -- Treatment tactics -- Encourage discomfort and confusion -- Know what and when to confront -- Confront softly -- Keep script insights in the past where they belong -- Deal with voices in the head -- If you split people, get them back together -- Afterword: living the therapeautic relationship.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

`This is an excellent book. Whilst specifically aimed at the "newer counsellor", this book contains much that will be of interest to experienced practitioners both within and outside of TA... this book is an excellent guide to implementing TA techniques and treatment planning particularly from a process model perspective. It incorporates many new ideas which will make it refreshing and inspiring for both new and experienced counsellors and psychotherapists′ - ITA News

This concise workbook provides 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills.

After a brief introductory section that summarizes the essentials of TA theory and technique, the book covers crucial aspects of best practice in current TA, many of them unavailable in book form until now. Presenting new and wide-ranging material, each of the 30 suggestions - which are supported by useful case examples - encourages both experienced and trainee counsellors to think carefully about their work and how it can be made even more effective. Ian Stewart provides much-needed practical guidance to such key areas as contract-making, time-frames and the Process Model.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index.

I: Principles of TA -- An outline of TA theory -- Principles of TA treatment -- II: Thirty ways to develop your TA counselling -- First principles -- Presuppose the 'one-session cure' -- Stay aware of time-frames -- Line up the row of dominoes -- Set clear and flexible boundaries -- Ask your client to draw up a goals list -- Analyse life-script with a brief questionnaire -- Invite your client to close escape hatches - non-routinely -- Keep your case notes as a 'front sheet' -- Contract-making -- Distinguish contracts from outcomes and actions -- Keep track of multiple outcomes: the outcome matrix -- Ensure that the contract is sensory-based -- Invite contracts that are finishable -- Agree markers for script change -- Keep the contract clear and flexible -- Put the contract in context -- Bring the contract alive through visualisation -- Using the process model -- Be a skilled 'driver detective' -- Avoid inviting drivers -- Recognise the six personality adaptations -- Confront the process script -- Make and keep contact: the ware sequence -- Get on your client's wavelength: the five channels of communication -- Bring it all together: the complete process model -- As your client moves on the process model, move with her -- Treatment tactics -- Encourage discomfort and confusion -- Know what and when to confront -- Confront softly -- Keep script insights in the past where they belong -- Deal with voices in the head -- If you split people, get them back together -- Afterword: living the therapeautic relationship.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Principles of TA
  • An Outline of TA Theory
  • Principles of TA Treatment
  • Part 2 Thirty Ways To Develop Your TA Counselling
  • First Principles
  • Contract-Making
  • Using the Process Model
  • Treatment Tactics
  • Afterword: Living the Therapeutic Relationship

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ian Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1940. He received his secondary education at Glasgow Academy and went on to study at Pembroke College, Oxford. Graduating in 1961, he worked for five years in the scientific Civil Service in Edinburgh. In 1966 he emigrated to England to take up a Research Fellowship at Nottingham University. On conclusion of his research contract he stayed on at Nottingham as a lecturer, gaining his PhD degree in 1970. Ian's first contact with psychotherapy was as a client. While continuing his own personal therapy, he developed a growing interest in the theory and method of psychotherapy generally and transactional analysis in particular. He entered formal TA training in 1979, and gained accreditation as a TA practitioner in 1984. For several years Ian followed two parallel careers, as lecturer and as psychotherapist. In the end, psychotherapy won the day: in 1989 Ian resigned his university lectureship to pursue a full-time career as a TA psychotherapist, writer and trainer. Ian is the author, with co-author Vann Joines, of the basic text on transactional analysis, TA Today. First published in 1987, the book has been translated into fifteen languages and is widely regarded as the world-standard introduction to its subject. Its second edition appeared in 2012. Ian is Co-Director of The Berne Institute, a TA training centre which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2013. Ian lives in a small village in the backwoods of Leicestershire, together with his wife and three cats. His leisure interests include Morris dancing, cycling, fitness activities generally, and the appreciation of real ale.