Termination techniques with older latency-age children according to the prior history of the child's loss

Abstract

[Termination is acknowledged by the social work profession to be a critically important area because of the opportunity to resolve previous losses and to set guidelines for handling future ones. Yet, little is written about appropriate ways to do this and almost nothing is written about the relationship of the child's previous losses to termination techniques. The intent in studying this area has been to find out if workers do, in fact, plan their therapeutic terminations with the child's previous losses in mind, and perhaps more important, to stimulate thought and discussion about this sensitive area.]