I just got the following message from Julie Hay:

Dear EATA Member

During the conference in Prague, we launched the EATA research journal – IJTAR – International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research.

Online access if free to all so please go to www.ijtar.org and sign in. Please also publicise this link to your colleagues, especially those who are not actively involved with TA.

Here is a short summary of what is in the first issue:

# Thomas Ohlsson has completed a major review of existing TA research articles, providing us with two lists – one of all articles classified by application and the other of those that are particularly relevant to TA psychotherapy

# We have a translation of an article in Italian by Pio Scilligo, in which he considers the status of TA-research, describes the ways that medicine uses evidence-based research and suggests we can add a more interpretive approach when dealing with the nature of people and society.

# Yang Mei reports on research in China, considering how college students respond to being taught TA as part of a psychology education. She uses ANSIE (Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale) to measure changes in the students’ locus of control, and also includes intriguing extracts from students’ written assignments that show what they learned.

# Cesare Fregola writes about research in Italy into the links between the application of the TA concept of drivers and various methods for children to learn two-digit division. He produces some fascinating examples that include direct observations, a questionnaire and drawings made by the children themselves.

# Roland Johnsson and Gunvor Stenlund describe their investigation in Sweden of the significance of the affective dimension within the client-therapist relationship. They use the CCRT (Core Conflictual Relationship Method) and the Plan Diagnosis Method to provide both quantitative and qualitative results, and support the latter with transcript examples demonstrating appropriate and not so appropriate reactions by the therapist to ‘tests’ by the client.

So a nicely international set of articles – China, Italy and Sweden – from some different cultural settings, topped and tailed by contributions about TA research itself to get us thinking.

I hope you will enjoy reading it – there are pdf’s of each article plus one pdf of the whole issue for those who prefer to print it out and carry it with them – although it’s pretty big at 72 pages!

Any errors are of course my responsibility and I welcome feedback.
Julie Hay
IJTAR Editor
ijtar@adinternational.com

p.s. we also welcome research articles – and you can submit them via the website

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