1st Edition

Terminating Psychotherapy A Clinician's Guide

Edited By William T. O'Donohue, Michael Cucciare Copyright 2008
576 Pages
by Routledge

576 Pages
by Routledge

576 Pages
by Routledge

The topic of terminating therapy is not one that clinicians normally consider.  However, the session limits placed on clinicians by managed care require that the end of therapy be built into the treatment plan from the onset. With a focus on the termination of psychotherapy, A Clinician’s Guide examines the pertinent additional training that will aid mental health professionals in... Read more

Issues, Controversies, and Strategies. O'Donohue, Cucciare, Editor’s Introduction. Chaffee, Managed Care and Termination. Baum, Forced Termination: Trainees' Treatment Terminations with Clients. Frayn, Premature Termination Issues Involving Psychoanalytic Therapy. Graybar, Leonard, Terminating Psychotherapy Therapeutically. Cummings, Interruption Replaces Termination in Focused, Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout the Life Cycle. Cucciare, O'Donohue, Clinical Case Conceptualizations and Termination of Psychotherapy. Prochaska, Termination at Each Stage of Change. Welfel, Ethical Issues in Termination. Termination in the Context of Various Treatment Models, Populations, and Patient Problems. Ochoa, Muran, A Relational Take on Termination in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Ellman, Termination and Long Term Treatments. Thorpe, McMillan, Owings, Dawson, Behavior Therapy and Termination. Moore, Bursch, Walshaw, Termination of Psychotherapy with Children. Bembry, Termination with Adolescents. Buchanan, Bonsall-Hoekstra, Rodman, Termination of Psychotherapy with Older Adults. Dobson, Haubert, Termination with Persons with Depressive Disorders. Hazlett-Stevens, Termination with Patients with Anxiety Disorders. Seritan, Termination with Patients with Psychotic Disorders. Shahar, Horesh, Cohen, Helping Them "Get Their Act Together"? An Action Theory Approach on Treatment Termination with Patients Suffering from Personality Disorders. Skinstad, Nathan, Termination with Persons with Substance Use Disorders. Strosahl, Chiles, Clinical Considerations in the Termination of Psychotherapy with Suicidal Patients. Harris, Pien-Wong, Termination in Inpatient and Residential Settings. Follette, Therapeutic Issues Involving Termination With Medication. Hiroaki, Termination with Japanese Clients.

Biography

William T. O’Donohue, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Department of Psychology and honorary associate professor of Philosophy, at the University of Nevada at Reno.  He is director of the University’s Victims of Crimes Treatment Center, and also its Sexual Assault Prevention and Counseling Services. 

Michael A. Cucciare, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine.

"This is a weighty read in every sense. But keep it on your reference shelf to reassure yourself that you are implementing good practice."

-Fred Richmond, trained as a BACP-accredited integrative counsellor, in  Addiction Today