Ian Stewart TSTA — TA therapist talking about TA and its influence today.
Transactional Analysis Ego state test
Take the Ego state test, it may be surprising!
Transactional Analysis
www.transactional-analysis.org
There is no time limit to this questionnaire. It will probably take around 10 minutes to complete. The more spontaneous and honest you can be, the…
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Psycotherapy and Psychotherapy Training in Chorlton Manchester UK
The Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy (formerly The Life Stream Centre) was established in 1987 and moved to Chorlton in September 1988 where we have been ever since!
We have been in 454 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, for the last two decades – it has been an enormously enriching and challenging time.
The Institute is a four storey building comprising of twelve rooms and Two Training Rooms.
Over 18 Psychotherapists and Counsellors work from The Institute – most have been with us for many years.
For over 25 years we have offered a wide range of services to the community from Individual Therapy to Group Therapy and Personal Development Courses.
In 1993 we also established a Training Arm to the services we offer and to that end we have been training people to be psychotherapists since that time to the present day.
Recently we have extended our services by training people in the areas of Clinical Supervision and Child and Adolescent Studies.
In fact we now offer counselling and therapy to children as well as adults.
We are proud of our achievements and the services we have grown over the years, and we are specifically pleased to be serving such a vibrant community as Chorlton, where we feel we truly belong!
If you are interested in Transactional Analysis click here
Thank you.
Bob Cooke
(Founder of MIP)
What Is Supervision
There are many areas of Supervision; Clinical Supervision, Counselling Supervision, Organisational Supervision, Educational Supervision and indeed Coaching Supervision. On this site we will be providing articles, blogs etc., on all areas of Supervision, though specifically Psychotherapy and Counselling Supervision. Clinical Supervision, which covers both the Psychotherapy and Counselling worlds is a relatively new profession. If we look back at the 1950’s/1960’s we see that Clinical Supervision was mainly used in the area of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic World. By the 1970’s/1980’s the teaching and nursing professions started to explore the use of Supervision in their professional practices. Both of these professions use Supervision mainly as an educative discipline rather than an interpretive and analytical discipline. With the emergence of psychotherapy and counselling post 1950’s we see the proliferation of Supervision into these disciplines.
Also we saw in the 1980s the inclusion of Supervision into the Managerial and Occupational Sectors.
Clinical Supervision for Psychotherapy and Counselling has come of age in the 21st century and we see that there has been a huge number of books and articles written on the subject of Supervision within the last three decades.
A recent definition of Supervision which I like is “Supervision is a working alliance between two professionals where supervisees offer an account of their work, reflect on it, receive feedback, and receive guidance if appropriate. The object of this alliance is to enable the worker to gain in ethical competency, confidence and creativity as to give the best possible services to clients”. (Inskipp and Proctor, 2001,)
It is fair to say that the major players in any Clinical Supervision is:
- The Supervisor
- The Supervisee/Therapist
- The Client
Within this framework Supervision is primarily focused on the Supervisor helping the Supervisee/Therapist to develop their specific skills in the service of the client.
There are many models, tools, and techniques as well as information to help the Supervisor in this process.
Two specific models that are useful in this context are :
- The “Seven-eyed Model” sometimes called the Process Model. This model was developed by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shoet in their book “Supervision in the Helping Professions” (1989)
- The “IDM Model” which is a Professional Developmental model created and developed by Stoltenberg and Delworth 2001 and written extensively about in their book called an “Integrative Developmental Model” (2000).
The “Seven-eyed Model” or Process Model is specifically useful in providing a map for the Supervisor to know where they are, at any time, within the Supervisor relationship with the Supervisee.
What is also particularly useful when using this model is the focusing on the particular “Modes” that the Supervisor/Supervisee will visit.
Mode’s within this Model
Mode 1 – The Supervisor within this Mode will be focusing on helping the Supervisee sharpen their “Behavioural Observation” when working with the clients.
Mode 2 – The Supervisor, when focusing on “Mode 2” will be facilitating.
The Supervisee to look at the strategies, goals, contracts, and treatment plans – direction for the client. In this Mode there will be an emphasis on the nuts and bolts of interventions within the therapeutic relationship.
In other words “Why” the Supervisee/Therapist decided to use that specific intervention at that specific time within the therapy relationship.
Mode 3 – The Supervisor when focusing on “Mode 3” will be helping the Supervisee to concentrate on the “Dance” between the Supervisee and the Client in the therapy relationship.
In other words to look at the transference projections of the client on the therapist within the therapy relationship.
The use of metaphor and imagery are useful techniques for this particular stage.
Mode 4 – The Supervisor when focusing on “Mode 4” will be looking particularly at the counter-transference of the Supervisee/Therapist within the therapy relationship of themselves and the client.
Mode 5 – The Supervisor in “Mode 5” will be looking at the relationship between the Supervisor and Supervisee within the Supervisors Office.
Mode 6 – The Supervisor in “Mode 6” will be looking specifically at his own counter-transference within the Supervisor/Supervisee relationship.
Mode 6 and Mode 5 are useful Modes to look at the “Parallel Process” between the Supervisor/Supervisee and the Supervisee/Therapist and their client.
Mode 7 – The Supervisor in this Mode will help the Supervisee concentrate on the Organisational and wider Environmental restraints on the Supervision.
This “Seven-eyed Model” provides a comprehensive and systemic model for examining the process of Supervision. It will be useful for Supervisors and Supervisees alike.
Another Supervision Model which compliments this model is the “IDM Model”, first postulated, as said above, by Stoltenberg and Delworth (2000).
This Model is a Professional Developmental Model.
The authors of this Model put forward the case that for effective Supervision to take place, the Supervisor needs to be aware of the Professional Developmental needs of the Supervisee/Therapist.
Also the Supervisor needs to be aware of the use of “Parallel Process” as a major tool within Supervision.
If the Supervisor is aware of such concepts as parallel process and the two models mentioned above then I believe more effective Supervision is likely to take place.
Other models, such as the “Procedural Model” and the “Tasks of Supervision” are also useful in the art of Supervision.
Book list -re Relational school in TA
2006: Roundtable On The Ethics Of Relational Transactional Analysis
William F. Cornell (editor and cochair), Helena Hargaden (cochair), James R. Allen, Richard Erskine, Carlo Moiso, Charlotte Sills, Graeme
Summers and Keith Tudor
Transactional Analysis Journal, Volume 36 No 2
2006: Ego State Relational Units And Resistance To Change
Ray Little
Transactional Analysis
2008: Relational Transactional Analysis by Hargahen and Sills
2005: From Transactions to Relations. by Hargaden and Cornell
2003 :Key concepts in Transactional Analysis By Hargeden and Sills
2001: Reflections On Transactional Analysis In The Context Of Contemporary Relational Approaches
Diana Shmukler
Transactional Analysis Journal, Volume 31 No 2is Journal, Volume 36 No 1
2001: Deconfusion Of The Child Ego State: A Relational Perspective
Helena Hargaden and Charlotte Sills
Transactional Analysis Journal, Volume 31 No 1
2000: If Berne Met Winnicott: Transactional Analysis and Relational Analysis
W.F. Cornell
Transactional Analysis Journal, Volume 30 No 4
Top tips for Emotional Regulation using a Case Presentation —
Stephanie Cooke PTSTA Talking about Emotional Regulation at a from a clinical perspective.
Supervision training courses and defence mechanisms.
Supervision training courses ,and Psychotherapy training courses ,whether they have a major Humanistic or Psychodynamic stance, will be concerned with the teaching of the defence mechanisms of the client population, in the therapy process, and the defence mechanisms of the Supervisee in the supervision population.
Clients when coming to Psychotherapy ,and Supervisee’s when entering their Supervision may errect, and maintain, if possible, their defence mechanisms.
In Psychotherapy these defence mechanisms are established by the client to maintain their own Script, and their sense of reality; and of course to keep the psychotherapist at bay ,and out of connection or relationship with themselves. in Supervision the Supervisee may, out of their awareness,errect similar defence mechanisms as the ones that the clients operate from within the therapeutic process.
Such Defence mechanisms are;
Denial
Projection
Projective Identification
Dissociation
Regression
Compartmentalisation
Splitting
in transactional analysis psychotherapy other defences include any of the Injunctions, Drivers, Games, Rackets and any other mechanisms to maintain their Script plan. As these defence mechanisms are unconscious it is important that the Therapist, within the Therapy process interprets and confronts them. In the Supervision process it is also important that the Supervisor helps the Supervisee ,to become aware of some of the defence mechanisms that they might be employing within the Supervisory process. And in terms of Parallel Process, how they may also be using the same unconscious defence mechanisms ,to keep out of relationship with their own clients in the own therapeutic process.
Indeed this shows how important the Supervisor is within the supervision encounter. It’s vitally important then that the Supervision courses, include in the syllabus ,the teaching of defence mechanisms, parallel process, and how to work with unconscious communication. For it is the Supervision and training that provides the competent Supervisee’s and Supervisors of today.
Bob Cooke 2013
Keeping Emotions in Check May Not Always Benefit Psychological Health – Association for Psychological Science
Maintaining a stiff upper lip and keeping our emotions under control is not beneficial to our mental health. Of course for our resilience and ability to cope with the lifes ups and downs we need to be able to regulate our emotions. But a common emotion strategy called ‘cognitive reappraisal’ may actually be harmful in our daily lives.
Allison Troy a lead researcher on the project says
“For someone facing a stressful situation in which they have little control, such as a loved one’s illness, the ability to use reappraisal should be extremely helpful — changing emotions may be one of the only things that he or she can exert some control over to try to cope”. She goes on to add that “But for someone experiencing trouble at work because of poor performance, for example, reappraisal might not be so adaptive. Reframing the situation to make it seem less negative may make that person less inclined to attempt to change the situation.”
This new research is fascinating and is well worth the read.
5 Simple Steps To Never Feel Overwhelmed Again
Ragnar writing for Pick the Brain talks about how to go about setting challenges for yourself without becoming totally overwhelmed in the process. He says that as you move towards your goal it is virtually impossible not to meet barriers and set -backs along the way.
His first piece of advice is different to that you will usually find in self help books. He suggests ‘forget the big picture; allow yourself just to move forward’. He goes on to give four other pieces of valuable advice in his no nonsense practical way.
5 Simple Steps To Never Feel Overwhelmed Again – Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement.
5 Traps That Keep You Lonely, And How to Avoid Them
‘Loneliness is tricky’ says Paul Sanders writing for the thebridgemaker.com. Paul also begins by explaining that being aware of the traps that cause loneliness is the first step of avoiding them.
The traps he describes are those such as thinking the friends you want to have are unattainable, thinking that you are not interesting enough or that you are afraid of being disappointed again. You may also have loner habits that prevent you from socialising and making new friends. He then goes on to give you straight forward simple advice to help you tackle your loneliness. The bottom line though is; it’s you who must put in the effort to reap the rewards! What are you waiting for?
5 Traps That Keep You Lonely, And How to Avoid Them | The BridgeMaker.
