Process
The steps taken when terminating a client relationship
What is assess readiness, discuss termination, provide referrals, and document the process
Ethical considerations when terminating via technology
What are ensuring privacy, confidentiality, and verifying client's identity
Potential effects on clients during termination
What are anxiety, loss, feelings of abandonment, or dependence on the social worker
These are priorities in the termination process
What are avoiding dual relationships, clarify roles, and address any potential conflicts
The impact of self-determination on the termination process
What is clients having the right to participate, make decisions, set their own goals and decide when to terminate
Ways termination differ when working with children
What are involving caregivers, provide age-appropriate explanations, providing recommendations to referral sources
Ways SW can address their feelings during termination process
What are seeking supervision, self-care, processing any countertransference or vicarious trauma
What are when a client is court mandated to treatment, SW may have a duty to report early termination
Things we review with clients during termination
What are highlighting changes, coping strategies, strength, growth, goal achievement, progress, future goals
When the process of termination begins with a client
What is from the first meeting
A way to ethically terminate when a client no longer engages in services.
What is write a file closing/termination letter to the client including resources/referral info
What we should do with clients when there is risk
What is include safety, relapse, support plans
When termination occurs
What is when goals are reached, when the specified time for working has ended, when the client is no longer interested in continuing, when we leave our employers, illness/disability, other personal factors
The core ethical principles of termination
What are confidentiality, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice
A type of termination that may negatively impact a client in need.
What is abandonment