Abstract:

This article is focused on the contract in psychological counseling and psychotherapy process. According to literature review, the contract is taken into consideration as an essential stage of counseling/therapy process especially in Transactional Analysis approach (TA). So, in this article firstly, the contract concept has been evaluated with respect to basic assumptions of TA, and then respectively, the necessity of making contracts, issues to be considered in order to make an effective contract, the importance of the principle of objectivity, the types of contracts which block the changing have been emphasized and in the end some suggestions about making and keeping contracts have been proposed. Key words: Psychological counseling, psychotherapy, therapeutic contract, transactional analysis (TA).

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