Games People Play: Transactional Analysis

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CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 ETHICS CREDIT

Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis (TA) describes how people relate through predictable interaction patterns called Games. Games involve hidden motivations, repeated roles, and emotional payoffs. Clinicians will learn how to identify Games played in the couples/family session.

Workshop Objectives:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

•  Identify common Transactional Analysis Games as they appear in individual, couples, and group clinical settings
• Apply Parent–Adult–Child ego-state formulation to real-world case material and therapeutic interactions
• Demonstrate Adult-state clinical interventions that interrupt Games and restore accountability, intimacy, and problem-solving

Agenda:

10 to 10:15 Welcome and introductions
10:15 to 10;45 Introduction to Transactional Analysis
10:45 to 11:15 Ego States: Parent, Adult, Child
11:115 to 12 Social, Life, and Relationship Games
12 to 12:15 break
12:15 to 12:35 Role-Play & Group Exercises
12:35 to 12:50 Questions & Discussion
12:50 to 1 closing

Recommended Reading:

• Berne, E. (1964). Games People Play. New York: Grove Press.
• Stewart, I., & Joines, V. (1987). TA Today. Lifespace Publishing.
• Widdowson, M. (2010). Transactional Analysis. Routledge.
• Additional contemporary clinical applications referenced throughout