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Lorraine Mangione1, Rosalind Forti, Catherine M Iacuzzi
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Antioch New England Graduate School, 40 Avon Street, Keene, NH 03431, USA. Lmangione@antiochne.edu
Abstract:
Endings in group psychotherapy are suffused with complexity and potential conflict, some of which entail ethical quandaries. Ethical issues attending endings in group therapy are explored through a discussion of informed consent, time and role boundaries, privacy and confidentiality, unplanned endings, therapist-initiated termination, and competence. Findings from an exploratory survey of members of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and clinical-ethical vignettes are presented to highlight these issues. Clinicians need to develop and maintain ethical fitness and awareness, including attunement to personal responses, to endings and loss.
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