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Articles

The Transactional Analysis Proficiency Awards

A Social Action Initiative

Pages 204-216
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes an ongoing, largely voluntary educational project for children and adolescents called the Transactional Analysis Proficiency Award for Children and Young People (TAPACY). Its aim is to teach transactional analysis concepts as tools that youngsters can use to increase their self-esteem and social skills. The authors review the related literature prior to explaining the ideas and philosophy behind the project and how it is expanding into related awards for teachers and educators (TAPATE), helpers and assistants (TAPAHA), and caregivers and parents (TAPACP). They describe how transactional analysis concepts can be shared as gifts, the importance of multiparty contracting, the processes from teaching through assessment to awards, the use of transactional analysis supervision, and typical examples of outcomes for the young participants.

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Ulrika Widén

Author Biographies
Julie Hay, MPhil, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (organizational, psychotherapy, and educational), a visiting professor at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, and the Academic Dean of an MSc based on developmental transactional analysis with the Psychological Intelligence Foundation in association with the Professional Development Foundation, Hertford, UK. In addition to managing the Transactional Analysis Proficiency Awards scheme, she is the editor of the International Transactional Analysis Research Journal. Julie can be reached at Wildhill, Broadoak End, Hertford SG14 2JA, United Kingdom; email: .
Ulrika Widén is a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (counseling) based in Italy and the deputy project manager for the Transactional Analysis Proficiency Awards. She is also an art therapist with a bachelor of science in psychology and a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Ulrika works in private practice in Milan and is a trainer at Epochè Institute in Rome and Assisi. She can be reached at Via Nicastro 7, 20137, Milan, Italy; email: .