Termination Of Treatment

overview of their lives and feelings, the therapist will get an insight into what the client is going through and a little of what brought them to their presenting issue. It is important at an early stage to make the client feel that there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel – without making unrealistic promises that cannot be reached. The therapist needs to make the client feel they are in safe hands and that they are being listened to and really heard. A potentially suicidal client should not leave a therapy session feeling worse than when they arrived, yet at the same time, the client needs to know that they may have to go through some difficult times in order to start to heal

It is important, during these final stages, that the counsellor and client can resolve any unfinished business and have time to consider the complex feelings about endings. According to Dryden and Feltham (1994), ‘a fear of loss may cause some clients to cling on to relationships in life and this will obviously have some bearing on the therapeutic relationship.’ As the counsellor, I need to be aware of what an ending might signify for the client, and for me, and manage these ethically and with the guidance of my supervisor.

The APA Ethical Principals of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Section 4.09c) states, "Prior to termination for whatever reason, except where precluded by the patient's or client's conduct, the psychologist discusses the patient's or client's views and needs, provides appropriate predetermination counseling, suggest alternative service providers as appropriate and takes other reasonable steps to facilitate transfer of responsibility to another provider if the patient or client need ones immediately" (American Psychological Association, 1992, pp. 1597-1611).

7). During these times commitment to the client and the therapy is required from the counsellor as well as motivation to ensure therapy will be pursued even when progress may be difficult to achieve. Some clients may precede further though therapy in a shorter space of time whereas other clients may not fully accept or commit to the therapy initially, it is vital that continued support is given to the client throughout this process.

The client has every right to choose whether or not they receive the treatment that they are recommended by a counselor. By providing the client with any information that can contribute to them making an informed decision on their treatment plan, we can be sure that we have

Once Spike is able to form secure attachments with friends, family, and/or others, a termination date would be established one month in advance. Spike may object, feel rejected, neglected, abandoned, and angry to ending treatment (Gil & Crenshaw, 2015, p. 37). Therefore, it is important to process the client’s thoughts and feelings of parting ways and the kinds of post-treatment experiences that Spike may go through to ease his emotions. In the final sessions, I would review progress made during therapy with Spike, and identify and discuss the remaining challenges he may encounter so that he is aware of his concerns. I would also encourage him to connect with other professionals (i.e., school and psychiatrist) and community

Listening is a skill and counselors understand it may help them identify past, present and future issues. It is essential for a counselor to practice their theory according to the guide or studies. Therefore, a counselor may prevent or lessen the likelihood of boundary crossing. The risk of misusing terms, mis-diagnosis and other unethical liabilities stimulating to cause a theory for the client’s best interest to become detrimental to the client. I believe the passion a counselor have for the need to assist others. In return for the well-being is a significant and needs to apply the identical passion to maintain their health, utilize all of their resources when it becomes over barring. Possibly to prevent a counselor’s from experiencing burn-out

Effective Clinical Mental Health Counselors develop and apply certain characteristics and behaviors with clients. Clients make the decision to receive services, creating an opportunity for counseling relationships to begin (Sheperis, D. S., & Ellis, C. M. (2014). Professional counselors bring their training, experiences, understanding and personalities into the process. While counseling takes place in stages of gathering information, application of theory to generate relevant goals, treatment, assessment, and termination. Clients and counselor develop a powerful relationship to facilitate changes in their life (Sheperis, D. S., & Ellis, C. M. (2014).

The clinician must keep in mind that the client is best able to determine when they are ready to work on the issues that have been neglected in regards to past abuse and if the clinician is unable to manage the countertransference, it is best to refer the client to another counselor that can better serve their needs (Verheul, et al., 2003). Boundaries allow the client and the clinician to avoid inappropriate roles. In order for the counselor to strengthen the supportive relationships while enforcing accountability, the therapist should direct the client in accomplishing interpersonal undertakings themselves, not only to strengthen the clients' capability to take responsibility for their lives but also to preserve the necessary parameters. The therapist must present with a tranquil and encouraging concern in regards to the client; remembering that too much involvement with take away from the clients ability to identify and build on their own resources (Verheul, et al., 2003). Other boundaries that the client could include in the client/counselor relationship would be to set and maintain regular session times, emphasizing specific beginning and ending times for each period, and not having contact outside of the appointment time (Verheul, et al., 2003). It is

Information will be provided in clear and understandable language to inform all parties of cost, risks and benefits, and limits of confidentiality (ACA, 2014). Clients maintain the right to continue or terminate therapy through the process of informed consent. Informed consent from a client is considered valid when (a) fear, external pressure, and difficulties are not present, (b) clients understand the parameters of informed consent, (c) clients explicitly give written or verbal consent, (d) clients are legally autonomous to do so (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists, 2015). If clients’ language ability differs from that of written documents, counselors strive to present a written document in a language understandable to them (Human and Health Services, 1995). If a client lacks the capacity give consent due to age or mental status, counselors will protect the confidentiality of information received as required by federal and state laws (ACA, 2014).

iv. The client works on establishing transference. He/she will tell the counselor what has caused the difficulties and the therapist and counselor work through it.

Termination can be a difficult task for clients. Premature termination may be even difficult. To assist with premature termination there are three techniques I would consider: talking about termination early in the therapeutic process, providing resources to the family, and discussing my client’s feelings.

As a counselor, I am ethically obligated to “do no harm” and “do good” for my clients. I must take the needs of my clients into consideration and do my best to provide the best treatment to meet their needs. I must

In the psychology field, contemporary issues are perpetual in the clinical/counseling regions of psychology. What is termination? According to Psychology Today it can be defined as a “clinical jargon for the last phase of therapy.” A specific issue, which I would like to address would be an ethical reason for termination of treatment. Is it ethical to terminate treatment when a client can no longer pay? Since no obligations are in procedure to visually perceive clients who cannot pay, is it congruous to terminate treatment? Although, it might be appropriate, therapists should not forsake clients. A major contribution that can depict termination of treatment, is the client-therapist relationship. The bond shared between client and the therapist

The concept of termination is a term that is used as a phase of the intervention process. In human behavior termination relates to the combination of everything done to this point leading to attachment and separation. Termination is the last step between the client and worker. There are many different reasons for termination. Before termination evaluation information is gathered. Formative evaluation is done to gather ongoing feedback as the group evolves for improving and refining the group to improve outcomes. Summative evaluation’s purpose is to determine whether a group has met its goals and should be continued. Group leaders should also consider methods of evaluating whether the group was implemented and conducted as planned. The