Learning Objectives for the TAP Modules
Part 1: Introductory Keynote (2 contact hrs)
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- List three transactional analysis concepts
- Describe three ways TA can be applied in a counseling practice, classroom or organization
Part 2: TA Basics (at least 6 contact hrs)
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Name the three ego states
- Describe the functioning of each ego state
- Describe one way that rackets develop
- Describe three different types of transactions
- Describe the predictable transactional patterns called games
- Identify positive and negative strokes
- Describe two possible childhood influences on life patterns or scripts
Part 3: Foundational Modules (at least 12 contact hrs per module)
In the first four modules participants learn to apply Transactional Analysis theory in their own lives and to begin to use it in their practices. Additional advanced modules focus on application of Transactional Analysis theory.
Module 1
Personality and Ego States: Structural Analysis
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Explain the influence of introjected/internal parent ego states in their life
- Use four ways of diagnosing ego states
- Describe the development of each ego state
- Construct an ego-gram
- Identify a change they want to make in their own ego-gram
- Identify at least three strengths in each ego state
- Draw Berne’s second order diagram of the Child and Parent ego states
- Draw a diagram showing subdivisions of functional Child and Parent ego states
- Identify two strengths related to Nurturing Parent, Controlling or Critical Parent, Adapted Child, and Free Child
Module 2
Transactions, Strokes and Transactional Intervention in Conflicts. By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Differentiate complementary, crossed, and ulterior transactions
- Name two advantages related to each of the above three types of transactions
- Name two disadvantages related to each of the above three types of transactions
- Use crossed transactions to change the course of conversations
- Use positive unconditional strokes appropriately
- Use positive conditional strokes appropriately
- Use healthy negative conditional strokes appropriately
- Name at least three ways of structuring time
- Describe two ways to invite people to change how they structure time
- Use one way to intervene transactionally to solve conflicts
Module 3
Habitual Painful Feelings (Rackets), and Destructive Patterns (Games)
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Use two ways to invite change in beliefs that support painful feelings
- Explain the connection between old patterns of thinking and feeling and current thinking/feeling patterns
- Identify two common destructive interactional patterns that lead to painful feelings (games)
- List two ways to intervene in games
- Identify two ways to show the interaction patterns in games
- Identify the three positions in the Karpman drama triangle and
- Describe an alternative behavior to replace each of the three positions in the Karpman drama triangle
- Explain each of the existential life positions
- Identify at least two games in which they have been involved
Module 4
Life Patterns or Scripts
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Explain how habitual painful feeling patterns (rackets) and destructive interactional patterns (games) advance limiting or self-destructive life patterns
- Explain the difference between an injunction and a counter injunction
- List two ways that early life decisions impact adult life
- Explain how positive and negative script decisions develop
- Use script analysis to understand their own life patterns,
- Explain three ways to facilitate changing script decisions that are experienced as negative
- List two ways that using transactional analysis can help clients understand their thoughts, feelings, and behavior
- Explain how to facilitate script change using Redecision Therapy
- Explain how to facilitate script change using stroke theory
Note: In order to use transactional analysis in practice, individuals should have completed the necessary training in their field or discipline and have the appropriate legal authorization to practice in that field.
