Termination of Individual Counseling: Concepts and Strategies

Ward, Donald E.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1984.tb02673.x

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“…The findings of the negative responses to abrupt termination are consistent with findings that planned, and presumably gradual, termination leaves clients with fewer negative feelings than abrupt or forced terminations (Siebold, 1991;Ward, 1984). The findings that the perceived failure of the intervention makes for a more negative termination experience, less positive self-feelings, and more self-doubt/sorrow are consistent with findings by Quintana and Holahan (1992).…”

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Correlates of Clients’ emotional and Behavioral Responses to Treatment Termination

Baum

2005

Clin Soc Work J

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This study investigates the associations between clients' emotional and behavioral responses to treatment termination and eight sets of indepentent variables, covering the source of termination (client, therapist, external source); the termination process (speed, centrality, control, choice, and desire), and the perceived outcome (failure, goal achievement) of the therapy. Subjects were 92 student therapists and 40 professional therapists, who reported on their clients' perceptions, experiences, and responses. All the variables examined were associated with one or another client response. The findings support the view of treatment termination not only as a loss experience but also as a transition. They highlight the need for therapists to pay careful attention to both the source and the process of treatment termination.

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Correlates of Clients’ emotional and Behavioral Responses to Treatment Termination

Baum

2005

Clin Soc Work J

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“…This view applies more often to clients, but has also been applied to therapists, whose responses to termination, positive as well as negative, have been analyzed as features of the mourning process (Martin & Schurtman, 1985;Quintana, 1993;Ward, 1984).…”

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Therapists’ Responses to Treatment Termination: An Inquiry into the Variables that Contribute to Therapists’ Experiences

Baum

2006

Clin Soc Work J

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The study investigates predictors of emotional responses to treatment termination in a sample of 48 professional social workers and 92 student social workers in Israel. The findings show that the respondents found treatment termination to be moderately difficult, and client initiated terminations to be especially difficult and to bring in its wake particularly negative emotions. They also show that the aftermath of the termination was related to the process. The less abrupt the termination, the more control the therapists had over the termination process, the more central the therapeutic relationship was to them, the more they attained the therapeutic goals, the less they believed that the therapy had failed, the more choice they had in the treatment termination, and the more they wanted the termination, the more positive self-feelings the therapist reported. The paper suggests that treatment termination is better viewed as a transition than a loss and discusses the clinical implications of the findings.

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“…Po stronie klientów najczęściej pojawiającym się problemem jest przedwczesne rezygnowanie ze związku doradczego. Pytanie o to, czemu klient zarzuca doradztwo przedwcześnie, należy do takich, które wiążą się raczej ze stopniem, w jakim klient osiągnął osobiste cele określone na początku związku i ogólną sprawnością jego funkcjonowania (Ward, 1984). Pewna część klientów zawsze wykazuje niewielkie lub żadne zaangażowanie do zmiany bieżących okoliczności i prosi o zakończe-nie poradnictwa już po pierwszej sesji.…”

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“…W toku dyskusji przeanalizowane mogą być myśli i odczucia zarówno klienta, jak i doradcy i w ten sposób często udaje się zapobiec zbyt wczesnemu zerwaniu związku. Ward (1984) wymienia cztery możliwe korzyści takiej rozmowy: 1 -Rozmowa końcowa może pomóc klientowi znaleźć rozwiązanie dla wszelkich negatywnych odczuć, które wynikły z samego doświadczenia doradztwa. 2 -Rozmowa końcowa daje sposobność zaoferowania klientowi kontynuowania doradztwa, jeśli będzie on sobie tego życzył.…”

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Termination of Individual Counseling: Concepts and Strategies

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Correlates of Clients’ emotional and Behavioral Responses to Treatment Termination

Correlates of Clients’ emotional and Behavioral Responses to Treatment Termination

Therapists’ Responses to Treatment Termination: An Inquiry into the Variables that Contribute to Therapists’ Experiences

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