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"But We're Not Done Yet!" - Processing a Client's Unilateral Termination - Test
by Judith A. Schaeffer, Ph.D.

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1. When clients terminate prematurely, therapists should:	Help
Decide immediately whether they should take the blame themselves. Take time to express the emotional reaction they are having. Contact clients and ask them to reconsider their decision. Exonerate themselves because clients should have benefitted from what they have been offered.

2. Clients terminate prematurely because they:	Help
Believe they have finished their work. Have other pressing obligations in life. Do not believe they are making progress. All of the above

3. Research reveals that almost all clients:	Help
Assume the right to make their own termination decisions. Are willing to stay in therapy until their therapist is satisfied with their level of goal attainment. Are willing to stay in therapy even though they have limited financial resources. Have a capacity to benefit from therapy because they are offered evidence-based interventions.

4. Therapists can be the cause of clients' terminating because they:	Help
Engage in too much self-care. Break confidentiality by consulting a colleague. Unconsciously communicate their own discouragement. Pay unnecessary attention to the stage of change a client is in.

5. Ways to prevent unilateral termination include:	Help
Asking clients for feedback regarding how much they are benefitting from their sessions. Determining which of the four readiness-to-change stages a particular client is in. Keeping in mind clients' difficulty with changing their coping skills. All of the above

6. Because of the work they do in cases of unilateral termination, therapists can expect to:	Help
Have no need to use a structured approach in the future. Move quickly into the category of the best therapists. Increase their sense of self-esteem and self-efficacy. Experience success in seeing clients to the end of their work with rare exceptions.

"But We're Not Done Yet!" - Processing a Client's Unilateral Termination - Test by Judith A. Schaeffer, Ph.D.

"But We're Not Done Yet!" - Processing a Client's Unilateral Termination - Test
by Judith A. Schaeffer, Ph.D.