Discusses use of TA techniques such as analysis of ego states, transactions, scripts, and personality types in selecting suitable adoptive applicants. Presents one goal of an adoption agency to be exclusion of applicants with destructive life scripts. Identifies the relationship of discounting and grandiosity to some adoptive practices and programs. Describes specific methods for applying TA techniques. Provides case studies of accepted and non-accepted adoptive parent applicants.
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