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Golan Shahar1, Sharon Ziv-Beiman2
1Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Abstract:
Treatment termination is, arguably, one of the most important events in the course of psychotherapy. In the present article, we present an approach to termination that views the latter as a key intervention. Developed from an integrated, cognitive-existential psychodynamics (CEP) perspective (Shahar & Govrin, 2017), Using Termination as an Intervention (UTAI) is a prescheduled, albeit tentative, treatment termination that may be used as an intervention for patients' remoralization (Howard, Kopta, Krause, & Orlinsky, 1986). Specifically, for some psychotherapy patients, prescheduling a treatment termination is useful in instilling a sense of responsibility and agency and in deepening a therapeutic examination of patients' interpersonal schemas and scripts (i.e., "object relations"). The integrative nature of Using Termination as an Intervention is delineated, and caveats are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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