Tony White’s Weblog

 

RESUME’  2009

Name: Anthony (Tony)  G.B. White

Born: Subiaco, Western Australia,  5th March, 1957

 

Website: www.ynot1.com.au

 

Degrees: & Certificates

1980: Bachelor of Arts – Major in Psychology

1981: Clinical Membership – The International Transactional Analysis Association

1983:  Honours  (psychology)

1989:  Advanced Diploma in Counselling, Level 7

1989:  Teaching Membership (Instructor and Supervisor)  – The International 

Transactional Analysis Association

1996:  Certificate in general and addictions counselling – Curtin University

2006: Senior First Aid Certificate – St John Ambulance Australia

2006: Authorized Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Act 1996). Office of the Chief 

Psychiatrist, Department of Health.

2008: Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. 

Australian Qualifications Framework

 

Registration:

1986:  Psychologists Registration Board of Western Australia

1988: Australian Psychological Society – member

1995: Member of the APS division of Independently Practising Psychologists

 

Occupational History:

1980 – to date: Career Guidance Counsellor

1980 – 2000: Manager of TA Bookshop and book publisher

1981 – to date: Transactional Analyst

1978 – 1988: Co-ordinator, The Transactional Analysis Workshop Institute

1984 – 1991: Lecturer, Basic Management Programme, Singapore Airlines, Singapore.

1985 – 2002; Lecturer and clinical trainer, Counselling and Care Centre Singapore & Singapore Transactional Analysis Association.

1986 – to date: Registered Psychologist in private practice

1989 – to date: Training program and supervisor for counselling and psychotherapy. Training counsellors for an Advanced Diploma in Counselling, Level 7

1991 – 2000: Consultant to St. John Ambulance Service (WA). Trauma debriefing

1991 – 2000: Co-ordinator of St. John Ambulance Service (WA) employee support program.

1996 – 1997: Volunteer Counsellor, Palmerston Drug Rehabilitation Centre.

1999 – 2004. Acting Respite Co-ordinator – Level 6. Association of Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill.

1999 – 2001: Evening Counsellor Supervisor, Palmerston Drug Rehabilitation Centre.

2002 to date: YMCA Perth, Employee Support Counsellor

November 2004: Consultant to YMCA Perth. Review of Youth and Family Services – The LYNKS counselling Service

January 2005 to 2007: Consultant to YMCA Perth. Psychological profiles of applicants for Big Brother Big Sister mentor programme.

2005: Carer for reunification trips. Christian Brothers’ British Child Migration Scheme

2005 – 2009: Invitational lecturer, Murdoch University  Psychology Programme

2005 to 2007: Senior Psychologist, Medical Centre, Acacia Prison.

2008 to 2009: REDRESS WA consultant for CBERS

 

Professional

1981 – 1982: Committee member: Western Australian Transactional Analysis Association

1981: President of the Murdoch University Psychological Society

1981: Student representative on the Murdoch University Psychology Programme Committee

1982 – 1983: Member of the Organisational Affiliation Committee with the International Transactional Analysis Association

1985:  Co-ordinator of the Australasian Board of Transactional Analysts

1989 – 1992: Treasurer of the Western Pacific Association of Transactional Analysis

1992 – 1994: Editorial Committee Member, Newsletter of the Australian Psychological Society  (WA Branch)

1993 – 1995: Committee Member for the Eric  Berne Memorial Award

1995 – 1998: Editorial Board Member, Transactional Analysis Journal

1997: Board Member, The Dyslexia – SPELD foundation, W.A.

2000 – 2005: Board member of the Western Pacific Association of Transactional Analysis

2000 – 2006: TA TIMES editor. Newsletter of the Western Pacific Association of Transactional Analysis

2001 – 2004: Editorial Board Member, Transactional Analysis Journal

2003 – 2004: UWA Press Club committee member

2003 – 2004: InPrint editor. Newsletter of the UWA Press Club.

2007: Mental health columnist for “Boost Juice” health magazine.

 

 

Private practice: 

1980 to date: Counselling and psychotherapy. Individual, group, family, residential, marital modes of counselling

1985 to date: Organisational trainer and consultant

1983 to date: Child, adolescent and adult treatment and psychometric testing

1996 to date: Treatment of addictions.

 

 

Invitational workshops:

1985: Sydney, Australia. Four day workshop

1986: Sydney, Australia. Eight day workshop

1986: Singapore counselling and care centre. Four day workshop

1987: Singapore, International Transactional Analysis Association World Conference. One day pre-conference institute

1989: Hawaii, International Transactional Analysis World Conference. Half  day pre- conference institute

1985 to date: Various other workshops and courses  (Australia and overseas).

 

Honours:

The Inaugural Goulding Award for Excellence in T.A.   Presented for excellence in the theory of T.A. at the 8th Australasian Transactional Analysis Conference (November 1988), by the Western Pacific Association of Transactional Analysts.

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1994: Inclusion in the “International Who’s Who in Medicine (2nd Ed)”. International Biographical Centre, England

2001: Honorary Member of the Transactional Analysis Association of Singapore

Parent Adult Child

There are three parts to the personality, sometimes called the ego states. The Parent ego state, the Adult ego state and the Child ego state. They are sometimes represented by three circles and labelled P, A and C

The Parent ego state is where we have modelled on parent type figures in our life. So it is where we have our values and morals about life. When we have our own children we sometimes find that we are doing and saying things to our own children that were said to us. These are all in our Parent ego state.

The Adult is how you processed reality , made decisions and understood what was going on around you. Sometimes it is seen as the computer of the personality.

The Child is where the feelings and child like aspects of us remain. In all of us there is an ‘inner child’ that remains with us a to our dying day. Sometimes it remains unchanged and the feelings and thoughts that you had in childhood stay with us and can interfere with our everyday life in adulthood. If as a child life was scary and frightening then in adulthood the person may develop anxiety conditions like phobias or repetitive nightmares.

Childhood experiences stay with us for ever.

 

 

The more the Adult is used in everyday life the more effectively one will problem solve and make productive decisions. People with a mental illness can be described as having a small Adult ego state and one can draw the diagram as such.

This person will find it difficult to do basic activities like maintaining a job. The Child feelings and thinking patterns dominate the personality. They do not make Adult reality based decisions. This person needs to reduce the influence of the Child in the personality and then the Adult will increase its influence.

Ego state functions

The Parent is divided into two parts

CP (Critical Parent) – Blames, attacks, criticises, set limits and takes control

NP (Nurturing Parent) – Helpful, caring, comforts, rescues

A (Adult) – Listens, observes, is objective, organises, solves problems

FC (Free Child) – Feels, wants, spontaneous, intuitive, intimate

AC (Adapted Child) – Divided into two parts which are both adaptations to authority.

CC  (Conforming Child) – Pleases others, conforms, obeys

RC – (Rebellious Child) – Oppositional, defiant, naughty, rejects authority

The more effective ego states are NP, A and FC and the less effective ego states are CP, CC and RC.

At birth a new-born only has one ego state, the Child ego state and it is all Free Child. Over time this changes and and the Conforming Child increases more and more as the youngster learns it has to fit in with others needs and there are rules about life. Thus as the youngster grows the Free Child gets less and less.

In western society from a psychological point of view most adults tend have too much Conforming Child. There are some groups in society who are exceptions to this and two of those is the criminal population and the drug using population. These people are not socialised enough and thus they have too much Free Child and not enough conformity to authority.

Conforming Child

 

 

The good employee is the person with good Adult function and quite a bit of Conforming Child. Those with criminal histories or drug use histories need to be more Conforming Child and less Free Child. As one moves up in an organisation more Free Child is required as the Conforming Child can only function if there is someone there telling it what to do. The Free Child has its own initiative and creativity and thus can be more in a leadership position.

Free Child

 

Tony White

Sunday, 15 June 2008

The next supervision group night will be:

 

Tuesday July 1st, 2008

7.00 – 9.00pm

136 Loftus Street, North Perth.

Cost $45

 

This group provides an opportunity to get supervision on clients or any other counselling issues one may have.

 

Other topic of discussion could include:

 

Change in the adolescent stage of development

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/30/change-in-the-adolescent-stage-of-development.html

 

Eating disorders and pro-ana groups

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/02/pro-ana.html

 

At the recent Richard Erskine workshop, much was said about attachment styles. Here is some ideas on that workshop and attachment styles

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/23/vine-swingers.html

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/24/isolated-attachment.html

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/25/human-attachment-and-marriage.html

http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/06/03/attachment-and-proximity.html

 

these topics can be discussed at the study group or other issues you may like to raise.

 

If you wish to attend please contact me -

 

email: agbw@bigpond.com

 

Ph: 9328 8993