Module Details

Module Code: COUN6019
Title: Life Script Application
Long Title: Life Script Application
NFQ Level: Fundamental
Valid From: Semester 1 - 2020/21 ( September 2020 )
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits: 5
Field of Study: 7620 - Counselling
Module Delivered in: 1 programme(s)
Module Description: In this module students will learn the application of the Transactional Analysis Theory of Life Script and its various component elements, including rackets, games, strokes, life positions and discounting. They will learn the appropriate application of these concepts to their own life experience. They will also apply the components and process of personality adaptation to their own life experience. They will also be address the issue of how Life Script can be brought into awareness and changed through counselling and psychotherapy. In addition they will continue to apply the psychoanalytic concepts of unconscious process and transference as well as the elements of group process to their own experience and to the counselling setting.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Describe his/her own personal experience of life script and its development.
LO2 Analyse how life script has been maintained and expressed in his/her own day to day living.
LO3 Analyse his/her own personality adaptation using the components and processes of Personality Adaptation.
LO4 Identify and analyse how unconscious process and transference are expressed in his/her own life script.
LO5 Analyse his/her own experience of bringing life script into awareness and changing it.
LO6 Analyse his/her own experience in the experiential group using advanced concepts from group process theory.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named MTU module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
Life script theory and Life script application are interdependent modules and should be taken in the same semester
Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list.
No incompatible modules listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Requirements

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section.
No requirements listed
 
Indicative Content
The application of the theory of Life Script, personality adaptation, unconscious process and Group process
Identifying and describing personal experience of life script 2. Reviewing and analysing personal experience of the process of life script development 3. Use the concepts of injunctions, drivers and the script matrix to analyse the development and perpetuation of life script in his/her own life 4. Reviewing and analysing personal experience of rackets, racket feelings and the racket system 5. Reviewing and analysing personal experience of passivity and discounting 6. Reviewing and analysing personal experience of how life script can be brought into awareness and changed through counselling and psychotherapy 7.Application of concepts from group process theory to analyse own experience in the experiential group 8. Exploring how unconscious process and transference are expressed in ones personal life script
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Coursework100.00%

Assessments

Coursework
Assessment Type Written Report % of Total Mark 20
Timing Week 10 Learning Outcomes 6
Assessment Description
Group Process Analysis
Assessment Type Project % of Total Mark 80
Timing Sem End Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Assessment Description
Written project on the application of life script
No End of Module Formal Examination
Reassessment Requirement
Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination.

The University reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

This module has no Full Time workload.
Workload: Part Time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact Experiential Lecture Every Week 1.00 1
Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) Non Contact Reading, research, Relevant application to experience, assignments Every Week 6.00 6
Total Hours 7.00
Total Weekly Learner Workload 7.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 1.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Ian Stewart, Vann Joines. (2012), Ta Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis, Lifespace Publishing Nottingham, [ISBN: 9781870244022].
  • Jay Earley. (2012), Self-Therapy, 2nd. Pattern system Books, CA, [ISBN: 9780415473873].
  • Richard Schwartz. (1997), Internal Family Systems Therapy, Guilford Press, New York, [ISBN: 9781572302723].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Hargaden H. & Sills C.. (2002), Transactional Analysis: A Relational Perspective, Routledge, Hove, [ISBN: 9781583911204].
  • Mark Widdowson. (2009), Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques, Routledge, Hove, [ISBN: 9780415473873].
  • Richard Erskine (Ed). (2010), Life Scripts: A Transactional Analysis of Unconscious Relational Patterns, Karnac, London, [ISBN: 9781855756625].
  • Richard Erskine (Ed). (2015), Transactional Analysis in Contemporary Psychotherapy, Karnac, London, [ISBN: 9781782202639].
Recommended Article/Paper Resources
  • Erskine, R.and Zalcman, M. (1979), The Racket system: A model for Racket Analysis, Transactional Analysis Journal. {51-59} Vol 9 No.1..
  • Erskine, G.and Zalcman, M.. (1979), Rackets and other Treatment Issues, Transactional Analysis Journal. {293-301} Vol 9 No.1..
This module does not have any other resources
 
Module Delivered in
Programme Code Programme Semester Delivery
CR_HCOUN_6 Higher Certificate in Arts in Counselling Skills 4 Mandatory