Summary
Contents
Subject index
Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O’Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others.
Terminating Psychotherapy Therapeutically
Terminating Psychotherapy Therapeutically
Introduction
A more complete understanding of psychotherapy would certainly include a longer look at termination. By terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, we mean ending therapy with thoughtfulness and care. That is, taking advantage of the possibilities and avoiding the pitfalls often present at termination. From our perspective, therapeutic terminations involve planning, conducting, and concluding treatment with termination in mind. It means providing a treatment and a termination that accounts for the emotional and interpersonal impact that ending therapy may hold for a given client. A therapeutic termination brings closure to treatment and prepares the client for life without therapy or the therapist. For many clients, termination is a relatively minor step. It involves a quick jump from the consulting room back into ...
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