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Celebrating Functional Fluency and Its Contribution to Transactional Analysis Theory

Pages 10-22
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author describes the Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF©). She explains the construction and concepts of the functional fluency (FF) model, for which she won the 2014 Eric Berne Memorial Award. The theoretical and practical links between the model and ego state theory are highlighted, and a case example is provided to illustrate the TIFF process. The author expresses appreciation for the support and help she received in the creation and development of FF and the TIFF.

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Susannah Temple

Author Biography
Susannah Temple, PhD, Provisional Teaching Transactional Analyst (education), is semiretired. She has worked in various educational contexts throughout her life as a teacher, community worker, facilitator, counselor, psychotherapist, and university lecturer. Susannah became a TA psychotherapist and educational Certified Transactional Analyst in the early 1990s and then taught TA in university master’s programs for educational psychologists and educators from a variety of contexts. Her research (1997-2002) to validate her functional fluency model and create the Temple Index of Functional Fluency (TIFF©) won her an EATA Silver Medal in 2003. The ITAA then granted her the 2014 Eric Berne Memorial Award for functional fluency as an original and highly significant theoretical and practical contribution to the field of transactional analysis. At present, Susannah works for The Fluent Self social enterprise company in Bristol, England, to support TIFF providers and others in their work to spread the use of transactional analysis and functional fluency nationally and internationally. Susannah can be reached at 10 Berry Lane, Bristol BS7 9SA, United Kingdom; email: .