Intervention
Recalling the verbal contract: she wants to be in control of her destiny, to salvage her marriage and to increase her sense of job security.
The therapist can teach Jane to recognize the Child contaminated behaviours, thinkings and feelings interfering her current adult life. The therapist can challenge the reality of the childhood beliefs by encouraging Jane to gather evidence with the here and now Adult. She have to learn that she does not need to comply to others' expectations of her for survival anymore. With the awareness, she can make decisions to re-write her script. According to Steward (1992, p. 51), "this re-decision, and its result is script cure." Just like the popular cartoon series, Super Why, she has the "power …show more content…
Jane has to confidently use her Adult ego state to address the deeper issues with her husband. She has to first build that self esteem to assure herself that she is o.k. before openly discussing the topic with her husband. Her choice of words, her thinking process and her decisions has to be made from the Adult ego-state to astutely assess the state of the marriage. Consciousness is key to avoid re-entering the drama triangle during problem solving discussions with her husband. She can be taught that thinking, feeling and behaviour are inter-related, she can observe herself to determine which is the most influential component to help ground herself in the existential Adult state. CONCLUSION
TA theory is psychotherapeutic in nature, it offers a systematic in-depth study of the personality of a client, bringing to awareness both observable characteristics and the embedded moral fibers of a person. By studying the life positions of the client, performing stroke analysis, structural analysis, functional state analysis, life script analysis and games played, it assists the client to identify problem areas. The realisation of the rationale of certain recurring behaviours can be a script cure. Empowering the client to re-decide their script will permanently effect a positive change so as to revert to the life position of I am ok, you are
Recalling the verbal contract: she wants to be in control of her destiny, to salvage her marriage and to increase her sense of job security.
The therapist can teach Jane to recognize the Child contaminated behaviours, thinkings and feelings interfering her current adult life. The therapist can challenge the reality of the childhood beliefs by encouraging Jane to gather evidence with the here and now Adult. She have to learn that she does not need to comply to others' expectations of her for survival anymore. With the awareness, she can make decisions to re-write her script. According to Steward (1992, p. 51), "this re-decision, and its result is script cure." Just like the popular cartoon series, Super Why, she has the "power …show more content…
Jane has to confidently use her Adult ego state to address the deeper issues with her husband. She has to first build that self esteem to assure herself that she is o.k. before openly discussing the topic with her husband. Her choice of words, her thinking process and her decisions has to be made from the Adult ego-state to astutely assess the state of the marriage. Consciousness is key to avoid re-entering the drama triangle during problem solving discussions with her husband. She can be taught that thinking, feeling and behaviour are inter-related, she can observe herself to determine which is the most influential component to help ground herself in the existential Adult state. CONCLUSION
TA theory is psychotherapeutic in nature, it offers a systematic in-depth study of the personality of a client, bringing to awareness both observable characteristics and the embedded moral fibers of a person. By studying the life positions of the client, performing stroke analysis, structural analysis, functional state analysis, life script analysis and games played, it assists the client to identify problem areas. The realisation of the rationale of certain recurring behaviours can be a script cure. Empowering the client to re-decide their script will permanently effect a positive change so as to revert to the life position of I am ok, you are