A social work study on effectiveness of transactional analysis training on social adjustment: A case study of women with spouses with drug addiction

Seyedeh Maryam Emam Jomeh Zadeha,Afsaneh Javadzadeh,Yousef Gorji

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2013.01.005

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Abstract

In this study, we investigate whether transactional analysis (TA) training could improve social adjustment in a case study of women with spouses with drug addiction. This experimental study was performed on 40 people who were addicted to drugs and were under medication in some clinical centers in city of Esfahan, Iran. The patients were randomly divided into two groups (control and an experimental group). The experimental group was trained under transactional training for 8 one-hour sessions. Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.89, which is well above the minimum acceptable. The results of the survey show that the means of two groups before test are close to each other. However, after TA has been accomplished, there is meaningful difference between these two groups. The result of F-value statistical test is also meaningful when the level of significance is five percent. In other word, there are some evidences to believe that transactional analysis training impacts on our surveyed people, positively.

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World Health Organization (WHO) considers drug problem in different forms of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption in the world as important as the other three problems of mass destruction weapons, environment pollution, poverty and social gap
George and Gowell (1973) explained that sensitivity groups, encounter groups, and T groups could be severely criticized, strongly supported, greatly feared, misunderstood, misused, and used in a different settings. They performed an empirical investigation and discussed that sensitivity training could beneficial to people preparing themselves for the health care fields. They showed that group experiences could help them in these areas and transactional analysis (TA) could be a valuable technique for enabling nursing students to detect their own feelings and the impact their feelings could have on others
We investigate whether a good TA training could improve social adjustment in a case study of women with spouses with drug addiction

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Introduction

World Health Organization (WHO) considers drug problem in different forms of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption in the world as important as the other three problems of mass destruction weapons, environment pollution, poverty and social gap. George and Gowell (1973) explained that sensitivity groups, encounter groups, and T groups could be severely criticized, strongly supported, greatly feared, misunderstood, misused, and used in a different settings They performed an empirical investigation and discussed that sensitivity training could beneficial to people preparing themselves for the health care fields. They showed that group experiences could help them in these areas and TA could be a valuable technique for enabling nursing students to detect their own feelings and the impact their feelings could have on others. The organization of this survey first presents details of the survey in section 2 while section 3 presents the results of our survey and the paper ends with concluding remarks

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