Post Conference Institute

Treating Personality Adaptations Using Redecision Therapy”

The theory of personality adaptations identifies six universal, core adaptations that individuals develop in their family of origin in order to survive psychologically and meet the expectations of their parents and other authority figures.
Each of these adaptations has a specific way (thinking, feeling, or behavior) for meeting the world, a target area for growth and change, and a trap area to avoid so as not to become caught in the client’s defenses. Each adaptation also has specific identifiable script behaviors. Redecision therapy is a highly effective approach in helping individuals to change and reclaim their power and autonomy. When combined with the theory of personality adaptations, it provides an even more effective means of targeting the therapy in the way that works best with each unique individual. This institute will both present this theory and demonstrate it in clinical work with participants.

Vann S. Joines, PhD, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and president of the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. He won the Eric Berne Memorial Award for integrating personality adaptations with transactional analysis theory and traditional diagnosis. Vann is the coauthor of TA Today and Personality Adaptations and the author of the Joines Personality Adaptation Questionnaire and the JPAQ Administration, Scoring, and Interpretative Kit (www.seinstitute.com).