The Effectiveness of Group Training In Transactional Analysis on the Differentiation of Self of the School Counselors

The present research was done in order to study the effectiveness of group training in transactional analysis on the self-differentiation of the school counselors. In a quasi-experimental design with control group, 28 people including 21 female and 7 male counselors working in Bojourd Education were randomly selected and placed in Control and Experimental groups. These counselors had scored low in Skowron and Smith’s self-differentiation questionnaire. The Experim-ental group received a ten-session training course; each session lasted 90 minutes and was held twice a week. A week following the sessions on transactional analysis, the above-mentioned questionnaire was given to both groups. Data analyzed by using multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The results indicated the self-differentiation level of those counselors who received the training was higher than that of those who did not receive the training (p<0/05).