The present study purposed to develop a program based on the transactional analysis theory, apply it to alcohol dependent patient hospitalized and treated in a mental hospital, and examine its effects. This study adopted single‐group pretest‐posttest design with six alcohol dependent patient in a mental hospital.
In order to verify the effect of the program, we conducted Wilcoxon\'s rank test. According to the results, the patients\' self‐esteem was improved but the program was found not effective for interpersonal relation functions except communication. According to the results of egogram analysis, change in ego state was observed in all the participants. Based on the results of this study, we proposed a program based on transactional analysis as a psychosocial treatment of alcohol dependent patient and discussed directions for future research.