Transactional analysis as a tool for career guidance of aged people

This article explores the potential of Transactional Analysis as a tool for secondary career guidance of aged people. The relevance of this topic is confirmed by the need to reduce social risks in the system of social and labour relations and to maintain the competitiveness of aged workers in the labour market. The article summarizes the specific features of secondary career guidance and emphasizes its multifaceted and complex nature for this target group. Considering the factors influencing the success of adaptation processes, the article presents possible applications of personality and ego-grams structural analysis, script analysis, and the analysis of psychological games. Practical examples of career counseling for retirees in late adulthood are provided, confirming the effectiveness of Transactional Analysis, its accessibility and variability in circumstances of unique characteristics of career guidance at this stage of life. The study includes the conclusion about the prospects of using Transactional Analysis techniques to specify the directions of career counseling work for each individual. The article highlights the importance of activating the process of becoming aware of one’s life script and changing childhood script decisions in adult life, as well as identifying one’s own role in psychological games and developing the ability to exit them.