All Outputs (5)

Quantitative and qualitative outcomes of transactional analysis psychotherapy with male armed forces veterans in the UK presenting with post-Traumatic stress disorder (2014)
Journal Article
Harford, D., & Widdowson, M. (2014). Quantitative and qualitative outcomes of transactional analysis psychotherapy with male armed forces veterans in the UK presenting with post-Traumatic stress disorder. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 5(2), 35-65. https://doi.org/10.29044/v5i2p35

This paper presents findings from a two-year research project conducted within a live-in residential charity setting in the UK, examining clinical outcomes of TA psychotherapy among 15 male armed forces veterans presenting with severe PTSD (post-trau... Read More about Quantitative and qualitative outcomes of transactional analysis psychotherapy with male armed forces veterans in the UK presenting with post-Traumatic stress disorder.

Avoidance, vicious cycles, and experiential disconfirmation of script: Two new theoretical concepts and one mechanism of change in the Psychotherapy of depression and anxiety (2014)
Journal Article
Widdowson, M. (2014). Avoidance, vicious cycles, and experiential disconfirmation of script: Two new theoretical concepts and one mechanism of change in the Psychotherapy of depression and anxiety. Transactional Analysis Journal, 44(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0362153714554207

This article presents an argument for the clinical and empirical relevance of case study material. Drawing on a series of systematic case studies based in Stiles 19s (2007) model of theory building, the author proposes adding the concepts of avoidanc... Read More about Avoidance, vicious cycles, and experiential disconfirmation of script: Two new theoretical concepts and one mechanism of change in the Psychotherapy of depression and anxiety.

Transactional analysis psychotherapy for a case of mixed anxiety & depression : a pragmatic adjudicated case study – ‘Alastair’ (2014)
Journal Article
Widdowson, M. (2014). Transactional analysis psychotherapy for a case of mixed anxiety & depression : a pragmatic adjudicated case study – ‘Alastair’. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 5(2), 66-76. https://doi.org/10.29044/v5i2p66

Using an original method of case evaluation which involved an analysis panel of over 80 Italian psychologists and included a lay case evaluation, the author has investigated the effectiveness of transactional analysis psychotherapy for a case of mixe... Read More about Transactional analysis psychotherapy for a case of mixed anxiety & depression : a pragmatic adjudicated case study – ‘Alastair’.

Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 2 - a qualitative exploration of participants’ changes (2014)
Journal Article
Widdowson, M., & Rosseau, M. (2014). Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 2 - a qualitative exploration of participants’ changes. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 5(1), 19-30

This is the second paper of three and describes an investigation into the way that executive coaching as a growing field of organisational development can be based on transactional analysis theory and methods. Twelve participants who had attended a c... Read More about Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 2 - a qualitative exploration of participants’ changes.

Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 1 – the workshop (2014)
Journal Article
Rosseau, M., Rosseau, R., & Widdowson, M. (2014). Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 1 – the workshop. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 5(1), 15-18

First in a series of three, this paper describes how the redecision approach (Goulding & Goulding 1979) has been applied over many years within executive coaching workshops internationally. The potential controversy about using a therapeutic approach... Read More about Application of redecision therapy in executive coaching workshops: Part 1 – the workshop.