This article reports on clinical work with a child using play therapy and transactional analysis. Drawing on both traditions and written by the clinician (Tatjana Gjurković) and her supervisor (Keith Tudor), it presents a comparative model of stages of treatment and describes therapeutic work that illustrates these stages.
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Tatjana Gjurković
Tatjana Gjurković, MA, Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is a psychologist, a registered play therapist, and codirector of Center Proventus, where she provides psychotherapy for adults and children. She also does training in play therapy and transactional analysis and supervises mental health professionals. Tatjana is the coauthor of several picture books of therapeutic stories for children and a book about play therapy. She is also the president of the Croatian Association for Play Therapy and actively promotes the importance of mental health for all ages. Tatjana can be reached at Center Proventus, d.o.o., Kružna 81, Zagreb, Croatia; email: tatjana.gjurkovic@gmail.com; website: www.centarproventus.hr.Keith Tudor
Keith Tudor, PhD, CQSW, Dip. Psychotherapy, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), is professor of psychotherapy and head of the School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand. For 15 years of his career, he worked as a transactional analyst with children and young people, and for 10 years he ran a specialist supervision group of transactional analysts working with children and young people. He is the editor of The Adult is Parent to the Child (Russell House, 2008) and has a small private practice in West Auckland as a health care provider and transactional analyst. Keith can be reached at Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, Aotearoa New Zealand; email: keith.tudor@aut.ac.nz.Funding
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.