 Hello, this is Bo Cook here, and this is a short keynote presentation for all transaction analysis students who have completed their four years of psychotherapy training. This is a demonstration on how to write, or perhaps more, the case what goes in the certificate of transaction analysis case study, which all TA students are required to complete in their endorsement process for recognition of accreditation by UKCP and European Association of Transaction Analysis. Okay, so let's look at the overall structure of the case study. It's an integrated case study made up of sections A, B, C, and D. Integrated in the sense that all those for particular sections needs to refer to each one. Okay, let's look at section A, which is made up of four to five pages. It includes the personal profile of yourself. Don't over-detail at this particular stage, it's only four or five pages talking about your own history, the profile of where you're up to today in your professional life, and a little bit about yourself in terms of family, education, and history, etc. Section B, which is about learnings and reflections from the psychotherapy training. That simply means what you have learned, not only professionally, but personally throughout the psychotherapy training, and it is a time to be able to describe your reflections of your professional growth, and of course some of your personal learnings as well. Also in this section you are asked to look at what schools, approaches, models have influenced you, that you've learned in your training to be the psychotherapist you are today, or at least the beginning psychotherapist you are today. Please remember no more than nine to eleven pages at this juncture, and also please remember that section A and B only make up for a small amount of the marks, and the section C and section D make up for most of the actual marks of the case study. So don't spend too much of your time, or of the words really, in sections A and B, because you'll need the extra words in the more important sections in my opinion, in terms of points anyway, or marking, which is section C or D. Okay, so section C, which is really a case description and analysis of the client that you are presenting in this integrative case study. You'll start off with the historical profile of the client, and then developmental history of the client in terms of developmental milestones that the client has gone through. You'll be required in this section to demonstrate of how you do psychotherapy. Usually best way to demonstrate to the reader how you do transactionalised psychotherapy is through transcripts. So probably in this section you'll probably demonstrate through transcripts, three or four paps on some of the important moments in the psychotherapy treatment with your client. You don't have to use transcripts, but you do need to show some of your psychotherapy methodology in this section. Okay, a very important part of this section as well is the diagnosis of your client, and how you reached that diagnosis. Also included here would be a differential diagnosis, and this is an important part of this section because it gives the reader how many good knowledge that you're thinking clinically in diagnostic processes. Okay, and then also in section C at the end is the prognosis, where you are in the actual treatment of the client, and more importantly where you're planning to go with the client in future treatment planning. And please remember the section C carries a high proportion of marks in terms of pages. It needs to be about 25 to 30 pages. So it's a substantial section. Okay, section D, which is the fourth section, also carries a large amount of marks and it's a substantial number of pages, usually again 25 to 30 pages. I think in this section you need to write six out of 12 questions which are dictated in this section. So it's the theoretical section of the case study. You will be able to pick six of the questions from I think it's 12 or 13 questions. There needs to be an integration here, and you need to be able to show some integration between section C and D. So when you're asking some theoretical questions, you need to link it in to the theory that you showed in section C. Okay, it's really the section where you're describing theoretically your clinical practice, and it allows you to really show off your clinical thinking and your theoretical stance. Okay, so that needs to be a well thought out section as with the other sections of course, but it's more a theoretical process in this section. In terms of reflections, please once again remember it's an integrated case study and that the four sections need to be integrated. There needs to be at least 24,000 words, 60 pages or to 65 pages, and this type of case study takes some thinking, some time, takes quite a lot of writing, quite a lot of theoretical thinking as well, and takes most people perhaps a year to write. So good luck, hope it goes well. I founded a particularly important time in my training where I could put together in a substantial piece of work my psychotherapy methodology, how I did psychotherapy, and also being able to clinically describe what I did, what's important for me, and it'll be a great feeling when you get it back with a good good marks. So good luck, bye bye.