 Hello, this is Bob Cook here for the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, a very short video about TA concepts, specifically the concept of decontamination and deconfusion of a child ego state, okay? So let's go on to decontamination. There's two basic decontaminations. That's a parent adult contamination, which is prejudice, and adult child contamination, which is shown up with delusions. Okay, so the reason for decontaminating, which is a strange word in terms of treatment planning within TA, is that the person knows which ego state they're coming from, whether they're coming from parent, whether they're coming from adult, and whether they're coming from child. If a person has got parent adult contaminations, they will be confusing their adult and parent ego state. In other words, they will think a parent parent, but they're actually coming from adult. If they're coming from an adult child contamination, then they're thinking they're an adult, but they're coming from child. So the major purpose here is to help the person understand which part of the self they're coming from, whether it's the parent part of the self, the adult part of the self, or the child part of the self. Once the person is aware of the contaminated parts of themselves, they can then go on to do the work around strengthening their adult ego state up, creating boundaries between the adult and the parent and between the adult and the child. The next stage after that would be to go on to a very different concept called the Deconfusion of the Child Ego State. So Deconfusion of the Child Ego State is basically when you concentrate on working with the contamination between the child and the adult. If there's a contamination and the person becomes aware of it like we talked about in the earlier slide, then you're helping the person sort out the confusion of the regressed part of the self so that they will be able to come from a healthy part of the adult and not get stuck in a fixated part of the Child Ego State. So working with the Deconfusion of the Child Ego State is, as I said, specifically clearing up the contamination in the Child Ego State. So adult is clear, healthy, robust and we sort out the the shames, the hurts, the anxieties of the Child Ego State. Okay, hope that helped. Bye bye.