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Being a Transactional Analysis Child Therapist

How Working With Children Is Different

Pages 103-117
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article discusses the use of transactional analysis with children—particularly ego state theory, contracting, and therapeutic process and technique—with an emphasis on how such work differs from adult psychotherapy. Reference is made to Maria Teresa Romanini’s theory of ego states, her concept of the real ego, and her influence on transactional analysis child therapy.

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Alessandra Pierini

Author Biography
Alessandra Pierini is a psychologist and Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy). She is a founder and the codirector of Physis, which provides psychotherapy, counseling, and training in transactional analysis in Rome and is where she has her private practice. She also works as teacher and supervisor in the Italian TA training institute Seminari Romani di AT in Rome and runs workshops in Europe. Alessandra can be reached at Via Festo Avieno, 92 - 00136 Rome, Italy; email: . The author wishes to heartily thank Bill Cornell for his clever feedback on this article, which was greatly improved by his generous and precious editing. The original version of this article was published in the Italian transactional analysis journal Neopsiche, 2010, No. 9, pp. 19-29.