Termination with clients at your field placement
Both clients and workers may experience separation and loss during termination. What are your feelings regarding termination with clients at your field placement? What are the qualities of a good ending experience with a client? What strengths do you plan on pointing out to your client about the progress they have made? Will you be making any referrals or recommendations to your field placement agency about a client before the relationship ends? Will the client receive any follow-up? What does the following quote mean to you? “Negative therapeutic endings almost always originate at the beginning and middle phases of treatment. They do not suddenly occur as the relationship is coming to a close. These stages do not proceed in a linear progression, but are, like a spiral, inextricably connected.” Kramer, S. A. (1990) p.14. If you had to choose a ritual/activity to end the social-client relationship, what would you choose and why?
Sample Solution
It’s astonishing how much of a difference nine months can make in a graduate social work student’s life. Perhaps it’s the all-day Saturday classes, the never-ending reading of journal papers, or the early beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome that transform a bright-eyed, cheery graduate social work student into a red-eyed, frazzled graduate social work student. There’s a lot of talk about burnout in the workplace, but what about burnout in school? “I adore graduate school because there is so much to learn,” I said, to “I need a beer.”
It is fairly uncommon to hear students discussing their stress levels between classes.
