Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action

Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action, Third Edition meets a demand from counselors and therapists in practice and in training, and from training institutes, for a clearly-written step-by-step account of the process, and practice of using transactional analysis to promote personal change. This book retains the successful overall structure and organization of the popular earlier editions, but has been fully revised.

Key Features

• Emphasizes powerful new techniques and concepts in transactional analysis—some of them previously only accessible in specialist journals—presented in an accessible style, immediately useful to the practitioner
• Organizes the sequence of chapters to reflect successive stages in the typical process of counseling with transactional analysis. This assists in building understanding and application of transactional analysis step by step, in the order that is likely to arise during actual counseling.
• Offers a single extended case history that runs through the book to illustrate practice and theory
• Includes "Key Ideas" panels to provide summaries of the main ideas that are described in each section or chapter
• Provides "Self-supervision sequences" offering suggested checklists of questions that readers can use in appraising their own work with clients

In this revised Third Edition of his bestselling guide, Ian Stewart offers trainee and practicing counselors an introduction to the core concepts and basic techniques of transactional analysis.