8.2.2. Outline:
Ending Work: Subtasks and Therapist Facilitation of Therapy Termination
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Subtask |
Therapist Facilitative Work |
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Prepare client for ending |
•Clarify and remind client re: time-limits •Allow 3-4 sessions at end for "unfinished business" •Suggest reserving time in last session for ending work |
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Explore client's experience of progress |
Empathic Exploration (especially "then-now" contrast from before to after therapy) |
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Explore client's experience of ending |
Empathic Exploration |
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Explore continuing and future projects |
Empathic Exploration |
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Disclose own experience of therapy |
•Personal work re: ending therapy, client's state •Self disclosure of own genuine reaction to ending •Personal reassurance re: client's state/progress (as appropriate and genuine) |
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg
http://www.process-experiential.org/learning