PROGRAM:

This is a four-year training comprehensive program, leading towards CTA exam. The trainees with previous training may join the program, at the beginning of every academic year, if they fulfill requirements of the previous level of advanced training. 

 The Fist Year Program: Fundamentals of TA

Contracts for change

Script analysis

Impasses

Permissions

Blocking tragic outcomes  

Racket and the Racket System

Decontamination of Adult

Symbiosis and passivity

Types of therapeutic operations (E.Berne)

Self reparenting

 The Second Year Program: 

 Clinical application of TA concepts 

Ethics, boundaries and contract

Concept of Change 

Confrontation

Using the script questionnaire

Treatment direction

The principles of group treatment

The developmental cycle and therapeutic implications

Redecision therapy

Rechilding therapy

Parenting and reparenting procedure

The Third Year Program:

Psychopathology; 

Different applications of TA 

 Personality Adaptations

Depressive script and therapeutic implications

Personality disorders

Couple therapy

Therapy of alcoholic disorder

Clinical games

TA and psychosomatic symptoms

Brief psychotherapy

Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Specific aspects of working with children and adolescents

Crisis -intervention (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome)

Termination

 The Fourth Year Program:

Advanced understanding of TA concepts and methods. Rational for integration TA with other therapeutic approaches. Exam preparations.

Integrative TA

Schools in Transactional Analysis

Cycles of psychotherapy (by G. Hewitt

Psychodiagnostics, psychiatric diagnostics ICD-10

Order of Love: TA and work on family constellation

The contemporary attitude regarding TA and Gestalt integration (from Perls and Gouldings to G.Yontef)

Mind/Body psychotherapy (TA and bioenergetics, the Body script)

Relational Transactional analysis

Transference and countertransference

Parallel process in supervision

How to write CTA Exam

The case study

 Specific supervision workshops will be focused on understanding Ethics EATA/ITAA code of Ethics and its implementation in practice.

Evaluation of trainees concerning the different stages of training

 At the end of each year, trainee has to submit essay answering questions given in EATA/ITAA Handbook in section D. To complete first year it is necessary to write one question, for 2nd year - two questions, for 3rd year- three questions, for 4th year- section A & B from EATA/ITAA Handbook.

Trainee complete training passing CTA written & oral exam.

Specific EATA/ITAA requirements for endorsement trainee for CTA exam in regard to hours of training and supervision, practice and personal development:

❖750 hours of client contact, of which 500 must be in TA 

❖600 hours of professional training, of which 300 must be in TA,

❖150 hours of supervision, of which 75 must be by a PTSTA, CTA Trainer or TSTA who is a member of EATA, ITAA or FTAA, 40 of which must be with the Principal Supervisor 

❖ 500 additional professional development hours (to be designated by the Principal Supervisor in accordance with national requirements) . 250 hours in personal psychotherapy are included in this part of the program in accordance with EAP requirements for European Certificate in Psychotherapy - ECP.