Discussion 10 - Explain how you might evaluate client progress

Discussion 10

• Explain how you might evaluate client progress and determine when a client is ready to terminate services.
• Describe a situation when a professional relationship may end before the client achieves their goals.
• Describe one potential positive and one potential negative feeling that you, as the social worker, might feel regarding a planned termination and an unplanned termination.
• Describe one potential positive and one potential negative feeling a client might feel regarding both a planned and an unplanned termination of a therapeutic relationship.

• Provide a suggestion for dealing with the negative feelings that can occur with terminating client relationships.
• Identify a social work skill, and provide a specific example of how your colleague might use this skill to address challenges in termination.