Stefano Iapichino TSTA-P
Cristina Caizzi TSTA-P
Field of audience: P

Language: English
Level of audience: All

Trauma impacts the dimension of identity because it can change the definition a person gives to himself, the others and the world around him, and the perception of his resources and limits.

Moreover, trauma can influence the family legacy, fostering the transmission of transgenerational issues connected to the trauma experience.

In terms of legitimacy, trauma can impact the sense of self-worth a person has and change his view of the world, starting from the systems he’s involved in, as the family system. This can bring the victim of the trauma to not feel a sense of belonging anymore.

Through the looking glass of Social-Cognitive Transactional Analysis (SCTA), a model developed by Pio Scilligo and his colleagues, the presenters will illustrate a case study, allowing the participants to learn the SCTA key concepts, and analysing how trauma can change the individual script.

The participants will be facilitated to understand the SCTA Ego State operational definitions in order to use them to read the intrapsychic and interpersonal behaviour of the traumatized client and see how to help him to recover from his trauma.

The differences between classical TA and SCTA will be highlighted, so that the participants will appreciate how SCTA can give them a framework in which they can read the Ego States activation and the script of the client in action. Eventually, they can find paths for the interventions aimed to help the client recover from his trauma experience and restore his sense of identity and belonging.