Discuss when you will know to terminate your relationship with your client.
What will be an ideal response?
?The counseling relationship should end when the formulated goals have been met or when progress toward those goals has stalled.
?Every counseling relationship should work toward a set of goals that have been mutually agreed upon, and a contract for working toward these goals should be established.
?The contract typically specifies the length of time the relationship will last and states that at the end of that period the time parameters can be honored or extended. The relationship should be extended only for logical reasons (e.g., continued work toward goals) and by mutual agreement of both counselor and client.
?As a competent, ethical counselor, you want the relationship to last long enough to realize the client’s goals but not any longer than necessary.
?Unfortunately, not all endings are based on completion of goals. Not all of your clients will have engaged fully in the process in a way that helped to move them toward their goals. This may have to do with their reluctance or resistance, their lack of capacity, or your own lack of skill in finding the right tools to assist them. When this occurs, you need to fully accept the fact of stalled progress, or of client noncompliance, and make the decision to end the relationship.
?When a client is no longer making satisfactory progress toward stated goals, it is your obligation to consider alternatives to your work together. You consider and explain the most reasonable alternatives available to this client and make appropriate referrals.
?There will be many times, including when you make a decision to end based on the perception of minimal movement, that other work will be necessary and appropriate, either with another counselor or in a group counseling setting. Sometimes that further work may be in a noncounseling setting, as in some kind of service-related project.
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