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parenting

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

Reparenting today

February 21, 2016 //  by Tony White

If one can get beyond all the negativity about the Schiffs and begin to use these ideas in working with non psychotics they provide interesting treatment options and approaches.

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Category: parenting, PsychotherapyTag: cathexis, Ego states, Transactional analysis

Adolescence, anger and what to do – part 3

September 29, 2015 //  by Tony White

It is hoped adolescents can learn these process of argument and disagreement. The more they do the more successful their relationships in adulthood will be.

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Category: Marriage, parentingTag: argument, Marriage, violence

Games children play – Happy to help

June 15, 2015 //  by Tony White

Sometimes it is the only position left in the family. As a new child enters the family and grows into it he has to find where he fits. The parents have the Parent and Adult ego states covered and a sibling may have the outspoken, demanding position taken so the ‘happy to help’ good child position is the only one left.

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Category: child development, parenting, PersonalityTag: anxiety, child development, conforming child, family structure

Getting over it and A1 thinking

February 24, 2015 //  by Tony White

A1 Black and white thinking. She is a bad person for hurting me. Behaviour can be the person.

A2 thinking can understand that all people are good and some just have unproductive behaviour or behaviour that hurts others. Behaviour is bad not the person.

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Category: Child ego state, parenting, PsychotherapyTag: counselling, forgiveness, fundamentalist thinking, magical thinking

Teenagers, parents and alcohol.

January 21, 2015 //  by Tony White

Forget the whole testing thing and start the slow process of rebuilding the lines of communication. Hopefully it wont be too late and there are not too many deep scars left on both parent and teenager, such that a reconciliation is impossible.

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Category: drug, Eating disorder, parentingTag: alcohol, Parenting, teenager

Psychological strokes

October 12, 2014 //  by Tony White

Transactional analysis theory of strokes is central to the basics of the theory

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Category: child development, parenting, PersonalityTag: negative strokes, strokes, Transactional analysis

Child psychotherapy – competition

September 25, 2014 //  by Tony White

This is one of those articles where you begin writing something and end up writing about something completely different. I was going to write about children and black and white thinking but ended up writing about a recent sessions I did with two children and their mother.

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Category: counselling, ego states, Life position, parentingTag: Child psychotherapy, competition, Free child, Parenting

Suicide and the average man

August 17, 2014 //  by Tony White

The Don’t exist injunction is different in that it is a belief a child takes on in childhood. The child basically comes to the conclusion that its own death is a viable solution to a problem.

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Category: parenting, Personality, suicideTag: Ego states, suicide, thanatos

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