Being a Transactional Analysis Child Therapist: How Working With Children Is Different. (April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pierini, Alessandra
• Is Part Of: Transactional analysis journal. Volume 44:Number 2(2014:Apr.)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 117
• Publication Date: 2014-04
• Subjects: child psychotherapy -- children -- prevention -- ego states model -- ego stage -- real ego -- attachment -- three-cornered contract; Transactional analysis -- Periodicals; Psychology, Social -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy, Group -- Periodicals; Analyse transactionnelle -- Périodiques; 616.89145
• DOI: 10.1177/0362153714538937
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-1537

Abstract

This article discusses the use of transactional analysis with children—particularly ego state theory, contracting, and therapeutic process and technique—with an emphasis on how such work differs from adult psychotherapy. Reference is made to Maria Teresa Romanini's theory of ego states, her concept of the real ego, and her influence on transactional analysis child therapy.