The first part of this article focuses on doing transactional analysis supervision, that is, the supervisor uses transactional analysis to do the supervision. This is followed by a description of a simple “frame” model (Cox, 2003) developed to facilitate the use of transactional analysis with other approaches in supervision. The frame arbitrarily splits the work of supervision into two dimensions: task and relationship. An example is given of using transactional analysis for the task dimension and an adaptation of Mahler's (Mahler, Pine, & Bergman, 1975) developmental model (Cox, 1987, 2002) for the relationship dimension.
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