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Originally Posted by PaulaS
I´ve been abandoned by my T some months ago and since then I´ve read a lot about termination and clients feeling abandoned, here at PC amongst other places.
There´s nothing much about how a T reacts when therapy doesn´t end at a positive note. When there´s no real closure. Sometimes it seems like if the T can motivate a termination by for example the methods not being sufficient, they also tell this to themselves, they just move on and forget about a therapy not working. Are they as coldhearted as they seem or is this just to protect themselves? To distance themselves? If anyone has a good article or book on this to recommend, I´d be interested.
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Personally, as a T in training I'd want to know what went wrong in therapy before terminating and try to address the issue. A lot of the time there may just not be a good connection and the therapy doesn't go anywhere. From what I know clients terminate therapy (or more likely just stop going) far more often than therapists terminate clients. Therapist screw ups may still be the reason therapy ended, but it's hard to really know. When I've encountered it it's been in the context of partial hospitalizations or structured program settings where the terms of the program are violated.
When outpatient Ts terminate, I think there should be a very well defined explanation and a discussion if possible. It's too bad because it does seem like in these situations that just doesn't happen and clients suffer a lot of pain.