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child development

How I became a child psychotherapist

August 4, 2021 //  by Tony White

This photograph was taken at the book launch of my book on AOD. Three therapists all sitting together. The woman on the left was a psychologist who worked for many years. She specialised in working with children. After I completed my psychology degree I was fortunate enough for her to take me on as an …

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Category: child development, Child ego stateTag: Child psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, training

Permission and redecision

February 12, 2021 //  by Tony White

These are two different ways of achieving the same thing Permission is from the classical school Redecision is from the redecision school Both of them are designed to alter the injunctions in the life script. To change the injunctions Eric Berne proposed the permission transaction as shown below If the client accepts the permission then …

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Category: child developmentTag: injunctions, permissions, Transactional analysis

Regression – defence mechanism & natural human process

May 1, 2020 //  by Tony White

The redecision therapy use of regression   Regression is the return to an earlier childhood phase of a persons psychological development. It can be both a defence mechanism and a natural human process. As a defence mechanism when a person feels anxiety they cope with it by again feeling and thinking like they were a …

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Category: child development, Child ego state, PsychotherapyTag: psychotherapy, regression, symbiosis

Adult ego state strengthening – Post 4

March 25, 2020 //  by Tony White

The final part of this composition on strengthening the Adult ego state seeks a different path. The previous three parts are examining behavioural strategies to assist a person to increase their Adult ego state functioning when under stress. This section will look at some of the underlying causes that may lead to poor Adult ego …

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Category: All Blog Posts, child developmentTag: adult ego state, child development, Ego states, Parenting

Fight, flight or freeze in therapy

January 19, 2019 //  by Tony White

The person who flees the scene of an accident or the hit and run driver has the flight response.

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Category: bully, child developmentTag: fight, flight, freeze, temperament

The bully victim dynamic

January 18, 2019 //  by Tony White

As any child therapist knows the ‘client’ is the child and the parent child relationship. They are a package deal.

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Category: bully, child developmentTag: bully, Transactional analysis

Examination of the demon personality

December 23, 2018 //  by Tony White

Instead you acknowledge its power in the therapy process and begin talking to it and forming relational contact when and how it wants. You don’t have a choice to do it any other way. As Berne says, it holds all the cards to play at any time it wants.

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Category: child development, Eating disorderTag: demon, therapy

Belief and thinking

September 3, 2018 //  by Tony White

Of course it works the other way as well. “Good” belief systems are also resilient and resistant to change.

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Category: child developmentTag: belief system, Ego states, thinking errors, Transactional analysis

Introjection and the integrated Adult

June 22, 2018 //  by Tony White

People are adding new introjections to their Parent ego state continuously through out life as part of normal psychological functioning.

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Category: child developmentTag: adult ego state, Ego states, introjection, Transactional analysis

Introjection – two aspects.

June 21, 2018 //  by Tony White

The Child ego state develops through early decisions and the Parent ego state develops through introjections.

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Category: child developmentTag: introjection

Smothering on the separation scale

May 20, 2018 //  by Tony White

However as is the case with human behaviour once the script gets set the person will start to do things that promote the life script even as they protest against it.

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Category: child developmentTag: teenager

Symbiosis and identity formation in the teenager

May 17, 2018 //  by Tony White

However maybe this is not so true with every adolescent especially the 20% I am referring to. Perhaps there is just not a strong drive or need in this group of people and the assumption that all people have this need is an incorrect assumption.

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Category: child developmentTag: anger, teenager

Children and emotional situations

May 12, 2018 //  by Tony White

When a child is in a new and unknown situation that is emotionally charged it will try and read how mother is emotionally reacting in its attempt to get a base line for itself.

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Category: child developmentTag: children, emotions

Play therapy and the aggressive child

May 8, 2018 //  by Tony White

In my office I have a dolls house, which I use when I see children and their parents for therapy. I find it can produce valuable information about the psyche of the child. What is going on inside the child’s head at that time.

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Category: child developmentTag: child anger, dolls house, play therapy

Despair and its treatment

May 6, 2018 //  by Tony White

A significant attachment figure was never fully internalised in childhood and thus there is a sense of a hole inside self. The therapist is used by the client to fill that hole.

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Category: child developmentTag: attachment, despair, emotions, feelings

Features of rackets

March 16, 2018 //  by Tony White

Anger is a distancing emotion it pushes people apart. When people want distance in a relationship anger can be used to achieve this

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Category: child developmentTag: emotions, feelings

Why is anger seen as bad

January 16, 2018 //  by Tony White

First and foremost anger is always potentially life threatening.

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Category: child developmentTag: anger, child development

Parental expectations of children

January 11, 2018 //  by Tony White

Research on what parents believe children can do at various ages found significant gaps in parental expectations in some core areas of child psychological development

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Category: child developmentTag: children psychology

Developmental significance of jealousy

January 10, 2018 //  by Tony White

If handled correctly by the parents it allows the child to develop out of its primary narcissism and to develop a sense of the worth of others.

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Category: child developmentTag: Jealousy

Goodness of fit in parenting

June 21, 2017 //  by Tony White

Of course all parents project onto their offspring and at times identify with personality characteristics in their children.

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Category: child development, parentingTag: child ego state, Parenting

Birth order and personality

January 8, 2017 //  by Tony White

Three children is the maximum that one parent can emotionally cover. After that sub groupings amongst siblings will form.

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Category: child developmentTag: adler, birth order, child development

Four demons I have known

November 3, 2016 //  by Tony White

Since that time the work on this concept has continued and the demon like qualities that can also be found in the archetype of Lillith, are applicable to more people but in less pure form as described here.

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Category: child developmentTag: demon, Transactional analysis

Psychotherapy with the teenage male

October 26, 2016 //  by Tony White

Psychotherapy can in this sense be seen as a feminizing pursuit, particularly for the male.

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Category: child development, identityTag: teenager

Duplex transaction

September 20, 2016 //  by Tony White

Despite the reason, we humans can’t keep a secret. We will say it out. The key is for the listener to stop listening and start watching. As a therapist it is certainly better to do this regularly with your clients.

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Category: child development, drugTag: transaction, unconscious

Two types of paranoid thinking

September 14, 2016 //  by Tony White

As we know A1 thinking can be magical thinking and this would explain why the paranoid personality can have at times quite bizarre beliefs. Such as thoughts being monitored by people who are not of this earth.

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Category: child development, ego statesTag: grandiosity, paranoid

Play therapy – The dolls house.

September 10, 2016 //  by Tony White

In play children will tend to do what they think is the right thing. Follow formulas that are known to them.

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Category: child developmentTag: play therapy

The discipline transaction

September 3, 2016 //  by Tony White

That is of course a Critical Parent to Child transaction. A very difficult transaction to do well. And such a crucial one for parents to master

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Category: child development, Child ego stateTag: discipline, transactions

Teenage suicidality

July 24, 2016 //  by Tony White

That we can pass on the ‘hot potatoe’ to someone else such that we can avoid sacrificing self.

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Category: child developmentTag: epic script, fanita english, life scrip

Child suicide

March 11, 2016 //  by Tony White

My personal view is there is a solid argument for the idea that a child cannot suicide. If one uses the term ‘child suicide’ that is quite misleading as the vast majority of people will assume it to have some similarity to the adult suicide which it most definitely has not.

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Category: child development, suicideTag: child development, suicide

Affluence and identity formation

December 20, 2015 //  by Tony White

This makes it especially difficult for children from wealthy families who can struggle to gain a sense of who they are as the parent(s) ‘shadow’ is so large.

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Category: child development, teenagerTag: identity formation, teenager, wealth

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