Transactional Analysis Application

It also enables and empowers children by them understanding themselves better, giving them a way of understanding relationships and the communications that can cause breakdown in relationship, it is a vehicle for teaching emotional literacy and provides a common bond of understanding between adults as staff, children and young people and the educationalists and foster carers by them attending training and learning how to create a positive therapeutic environment.

This approach has proven to be particularly useful when working with children who display abuse reactive and challenging behaviours in residential, educational and clinical environments and even at an organisational level.

Bowlby proposed that the quality if childhood relationships with the caregivers results in the internal representations or working models of the self and other that provide prototypes for later social relations.

The expectations are themselves abstractions based on repeated interactions of specific types with that individual. (Bowlby) At this point Five Rivers is able to provide a psychological based clinical intervention via our research partners The Pillars of Parenting, who are specialist in the application and training of the use of psychology within a residential environment.

At Five Rivers we believe that if children are to be given back their childhood within our use of an authoritative parenting style (Baumrind,D. 1967) then the skilled application of Transactional Analysis can be applied by the carer, residential practitioners to work on the their own states, child’s, emotional intelligence and sub ego states where required.

References

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