Transactional Analysis

Learn Transactional Analysis psychotherapy and counselling skills. Covers theory, techniques, and delivery.

What you'll learn
Transactional Analysis
Psychotherapy skills
Understand where psychological problems come from and what to do about them
Improve self-understanding and communication with others
Apply Transactional Analysis to a range of mental health problems
Requirements
This course covers the fundamentals and requires no prior knowledge of Transactional Analysis
Basic counselling skills are helpful but not essential
Description
Transactional Analysis (TA) is a form of psychotherapy that uses our interactions with others to better understand ourselves, our behaviour, and how to make changes in our lives. This course will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the theory, techniques and uses of Transactional Analysis.This course is suitable for both mental health professionals and individuals looking to further develop their self-understanding. Whether you are a psychotherapist, counsellor, helping professional, psychology student, or looking to work on your own mental health, this course will help us gain greater insight into ourselves and those around us.Transactional Analysis proposes that we carry our parents’ values and childhood fears through into adulthood. This forms our script, causing us to continue to follow these unhelpful patterns in adulthood that lead to us subconsciously playing out negative behaviours and destructive games. By better understanding ourselves we can move out of this script and into autonomy: recapturing intimacy and spontaneity and reducing anxiety and depression.We will cover:The core principles of Transactional Analysis, from those originally developed by Eric Berne to modern developments in TA counselling techniquesHow to use Parent-Adult-Child ego-states and life-scripts to understand how our childhood affects our behaviour todayHow we can analyse our communication with others, exploring the ulterior motives, our need for affection, filtering out compliments and the drama triangleUsing Transactional Analysis techniques including observation, decontamination, confronting games, giving permissions and recognising ego-statesStep-by-step delivering a course of therapy using Transactional Analysis including structuring therapy, intake assessments, contracting and working safelyAs well as looking at the theory, techniques and practicalities, we’ll apply Transactional Analysis to a range of problems. Case studies include depression, burnout, perfectionism, addiction, and relationship issues.The course comes with a comprehensive handbook as well as downloads and exercises so that you have all the resources you need to deliver Transactional Analysis to others or use it yourself. On completing the course, you will earn a certificate accredited by the International Association of Therapists.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 Course goals and outline

Lecture 3 How to use this course

Lecture 4 Course handbook

Lecture 5 Meet your instructor

Lecture 6 Student community

Section 2: Foundations of Transactional Analysis

Lecture 7 What is Transactional Analysis?

Lecture 8 Goals of Transactional Analysis

Lecture 9 Principles of Transactional Analysis

Lecture 10 History of Transactional Analysis

Lecture 11 Comparison with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Lecture 12 Comparison with Person-centred

Lecture 13 Comparison with Psychodynamic

Lecture 14 Strengths and limitations

Section 3: Understanding ourselves

Lecture 15 Ego-states

Lecture 16 Definition of ego-states

Lecture 17 Ego-state model

Lecture 18 Functional ego-state model

Lecture 19 Adapted Child and Free Child

Lecture 20 Controlling Parent and Nurturing Parent

Lecture 21 Egograms

Lecture 22 Activity: egogram

Lecture 23 Second-order analysis

Lecture 24 Second-order structural model

Lecture 25 Id, ego and superego

Section 4: Troubleshooting ego-states

Lecture 26 What goes wrong with ego-states?

Lecture 27 Contamination

Lecture 28 Contamination model

Lecture 29 Parent contamination

Lecture 30 Child contamination

Lecture 31 Exclusion

Section 5: How we behave

Lecture 32 Life-scripts

Lecture 33 Activity: life-scripts

Lecture 34 How are life-scripts written?

Lecture 35 Tragic scripts

Lecture 36 Problems with script

Lecture 37 Why do we slip into script?

Lecture 38 Injunctions

Lecture 39 Counterinjunctions

Lecture 40 Antiscript

Lecture 41 Process scripts

Lecture 42 Life positions

Lecture 43 Drivers

Section 6: Troubleshooting behaviour

Lecture 44 Discounting

Lecture 45 Diagnosing discounting

Lecture 46 Racket feelings

Lecture 47 Authentic feelings

Lecture 48 Stamp collecting

Section 7: How we communicate

Lecture 49 Transactions

Lecture 50 Complementary transactions

Lecture 51 Crossed transactions

Lecture 52 Transaction levels

Lecture 53 Ulterior transactions

Lecture 54 Thinking Martian

Lecture 55 Inviting responses

Section 8: Why we communicate

Lecture 56 Strokes

Lecture 57 Types of strokes

Lecture 58 Feeding our stimulus-hunger

Lecture 59 Stroke filter

Lecture 60 Stroke economy

Lecture 61 Stroking profile

Lecture 62 Activity: Stroking profile

Lecture 63 Time structuring overview

Lecture 64 Time structuring

Section 9: Troubleshooting communication

Lecture 65 Crossed transactions

Lecture 66 Games

Lecture 67 Drama triangle

Lecture 68 Drama triangle model

Section 10: Techniques

Lecture 69 How do we help people?

Lecture 70 Listening

Lecture 71 Observation

Lecture 72 Diagnosing ego-states

Lecture 73 Analysing transactions

Lecture 74 Decontamination

Lecture 75 Strengthening our adult

Lecture 76 Confrontation

Lecture 77 Confronting discounting

Lecture 78 Confronting games

Lecture 79 Permissions

Lecture 80 Stroking

Lecture 81 Mindfulness

Section 11: Recognising ego-states

Lecture 82 Methods of recognition

Lecture 83 Behavioural diagnosis

Lecture 84 Social diagnosis

Lecture 85 Historical diagnosis

Lecture 86 Phenomenological diagnosis

Section 12: Doing Transactional Analysis

Lecture 87 Step-by-step guide

Lecture 88 Structuring therapy

Lecture 89 Intake assessment

Lecture 90 Assessment checklist

Lecture 91 Suitability checklist

Lecture 92 First session

Lecture 93 Therapeutic alliance

Lecture 94 Contractual method

Lecture 95 Business contract

Lecture 96 Therapeutic contract

Lecture 97 Interventions

Lecture 98 Termination

Lecture 99 Types of endings

Lecture 100 Working safely

Section 13: Applying Transactional Analysis

Lecture 101 Introduction to applications

Lecture 102 Depression

Lecture 103 Perfectionism

Lecture 104 Addiction

Lecture 105 Couples

Section 14: Case studies

Lecture 106 Introduction to case studies

Lecture 107 Case study: Burnout

Lecture 108 Case study: Relationships

Lecture 109 Case study: Alcohol abuse

Section 15: Questions about Transactional Analysis

Lecture 110 Can I be in more than one ego-state at once?

Lecture 111 Do I teach the theory?

Section 16: Conclusion

Lecture 112 Conclusion

Lecture 113 References

Lecture 114 Bonus lecture

Counsellors and mental health professionals looking to introduce Transactional Analysis,Individuals looking to improve their own mental health,Psychology students who want to learn about Transactional Analysis techniques