Contracting is one of the basic principles of transactional analysis. Since Berne introduced the concept it has been greatly expanded and used in different contexts within the practice of transactional analysis psychotherapy. This articles proposes to differentiate between treatment contracts, behavioral contracts, and process contracts and to adjust the style in which contracts are made to their different uses.
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