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Respond to at least two colleagues by sharing an alternate suggestion for dealing with the negative feelings that can occur with terminating client relationships.

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Discussion

Two positive feelings that the social worker and the client could feel would be a sense of accomplishment and achievement as we conquered some goals. However there could be a Yin and Yang effect, so proud and happy for the accomplishment, yet sad to part ways with a feeling of loss.

One way that we can assist the client with negative feelings is to be prepared and plan for the termination from the beginning; we may not be able to know the exact date, but we may have a rough estimate of how many visits we will have over a certain period of time. We should also remind the client again several visits before the last, no surprises (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2014). From the beginning we know that this is going to end.

To help myself with negative feelings, I could reach out to a fellow colleague or supervisor. Self-correction is used to help the social worker regulate emotions (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2014). It will be more difficult for a social worker to help the client if they can not get a grip on their own emotions.

There may be times that a client just drops off and does not return for what-ever reason. I can see myself having guilt and just wondering what happened to the client. What went wrong? Was it something I did? The unknown eats away at me. Time with a supervisor to talk it out may help to process what just happened here.

Kist-Ashman, K., & Hull, G.H., Jr. (2014), Understanding generalist practice (7th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.