Types of ContractTransactional Analysis

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorSCMS School of Technology and Management

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Types of Contract

TA Practitioners

distinguishes two different

kinds of contracts.

• The administrative or

business contract and

• The clinical or

treatment contract.

Business Contract

The business contract is an agreement between the practitioner and client about the details of payment and administrative arrangements for their work together.

Treatment Contract

In the treatment contract ,

the client sets out clearly

what changes he wants to

make, and specifies what

he is willing to do to help

bring about these changes.

Treatment Contract

The practitioner says

whether she is willing to

work with the client in the

achievement of his desired

changes, and states what

her input to this process

will be.

Definition of Contract

Berne defined a

contract as an explicit

bilateral commitment

to a well defined

course of action.

Definition of Contract

James and Jongeward

defined contract as an

adult commitment to

one’s self and/or

someone else to make

a change.

Definition of Contract

Contracts specify

• Who both parties are.

• What it is they are

going to do together.

• How long this will take.

Definition of Contract

Contracts specify

• What the goals or

outcomes of that

process will be.

Definition of Contract

Contracts specify

• How they will know

when they have gotten

there.

Definition of Contract

Contracts specify

• How that will be

beneficial and/or

pleasing to the client.

References

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