Transactional analysis and adult education are both located within the tradition of humanistic psychology, and they share many underlying assumptions, including that human beings naturally tend toward growth and change, that adults are responsible for themselves, and that people are inherently good. The principles of adult education are useful when reflecting on the structure and process of transactional analysis training groups.
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