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In behavioral diagnosis, you judge which ego state a person is in by observing his behavior. As you do so, you can see or hear: Words, Tones, Gestures, Postures and Facial Expressions
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Behavioral diagnosis
Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
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Behavioral diagnosis• In behavioral diagnosis, you
judge which ego state a person is in by observing his behavior.
• As you do so, you can see or hear:– Words.– Tones.– Gestures.– Postures.– Facial Expressions.
Standard clues• Its traditional for books
about TA to give tables of standard clues for behavioral diagnosis.
• For instance, wagging finger is said to fit with controlling parent.
• But this is not what ego state model says.
Standard clues• When I say I am “ in my child”,
I mean I am behaving, thinking and feeling as the child I once was – not just like any child.
• It follows that for a reliable behavioral diagnosis of my Adapted Child ego state, you would need to know how I looked and sounded back in my childhood when I was obeying my parents.
Standard clues• The set of behavioral clues
that define my Adapted Child or Free Child will be different from yours, because we were different children.
• Because we had different parents, we will each have our own unique set of behaviors to mark Controlling or Nurturing parent.
Standard clues• Does this mean that tables of standard clues are
useless?• No. There are some kinds of behavior that are
typical to children in general and same with Parent and Adult.
• Instead of using standard clues, it is better to draw up your own.
Activity• Take a sheet of paper and
draw six vertical columns on it.
• Head the left hand column “Clues from “. Head the other five columns with the five functional ego state labels you used in ego gram – CP, NP,A,FC and AC.
Activity• Go back to the column headed
“Clues from –”. Evenly spaced down it, write five headings – words, tones, Gestures, Postures and facial expressions.
• Draw in horizontal lines so that you finish up with give empty boxes, down each column.
• The idea is that you fill in the behavioral clues for yourself in each column.
Standard clues
• Sometimes when you are
observing my behavioral
clues, you may need to
ask more questions to
help you judge which of
my ego states a particular
behavior fits in.
Standard clues
• Suppose you see me sitting in a
drooping pose. I am leaning
forward, head in hands. The
corner of my mouth are turned
down. I am sighing deeply, and
my eyes filled with tears.
• From all these clues, you gather
that I am expressing sadness.
But what ego state am I in?
Standard clues• Perhaps I have just heard that a close
relative has died? My sadness then would
be an appropriate response to the here
and now, hence Adult.
• Or I go back in contact with some memory
of a loss I experienced when I was a child,
and which I have never let myself be sad
about until now. In that case, my feeling
expression is from free Child.
• Still another possibility is that I am
replaying a negative Adapted Child pattern
in which I droop and get sad as a way of
manipulating the people around me.
Standard clues
• To back up your assessment of my
behavioral clues, you may want to
ask questions about how other
people relate to me.
• You may ask about my personal
history and what my parents were
like.
• And you may explore what I can re
– experience from my own
childhood.
Thank You
Other TA topics available on slideshare1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.
2. Games People Play - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/psychological-games-people-play.
3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is5. Cycles of Development -
http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-developement-pamela-levin-transactional-analysis.
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