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TA in Educational and other Institutions

Transactional Analysis and the Assessment of Adoption Applicants

Pages 344-352
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Discusses use of TA techniques such as analysis of ego states, transactions, scripts, and personality types in selecting suitable adoptive applicants. Presents one goal of an adoption agency to be exclusion of applicants with destructive life scripts. Identifies the relationship of discounting and grandiosity to some adoptive practices and programs. Describes specific methods for applying TA techniques. Provides case studies of accepted and non-accepted adoptive parent applicants.