Forced Termination In Psychology

Termination is a crucial moment in a psychotherapeutic process stands as "a period full of clinical and emotional connotations that affect not only the patient but also the therapist; Likewise, the termination will largely depend on how the process is remembered "(Craige, 2006). P.586). In the literature reviewed, those who have most approached the subject of closure or termination are those authors who conceptualize brief therapies, because of their temporary limitations in this type of therapy, the final phase becomes a particularly critical issue. (Bostic, Shadid, and Blotcky (1996) p.348), Performed a thorough review on all the vicissitudes with which therapists there are in formation can be found when faced with forced terminations. For these authors, forced termination can be experienced by the patient as a loss, in this case, of his therapist. Therefore, …show more content…
"Patients may also experience the different stages of grief such as denial, anger, negotiation, depression, and acceptance described by Kubler-Ross (cited by Bostic, Shadid and Blotcky, 1996), p.359) as this process Can intensely revive previous feelings of loss and abandonment. However, the appearance of these feelings during termination may provide the possibility for them to be re-elaborated by the patient in the therapeutic space.
Other feelings that may appear in patients during the final phase of treatment are the sense that the therapist is rejecting them or that the therapist is leaving them for something better. Consequently, this can lead to anxiety, anger, and depression, feelings of helplessness or abandonment. This may result in the activation of defenses, often primitive, that were used for the previous separations. In this sense, therapy can offer the opportunity to work from this experience, to strengthen the patient's self and to promote the replacement of the primitive defenses by responses of greater