Assignment: Practicum - Client Termination Summary
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Develop client termination summaries
To prepare:
- For guidance on writing a Client Termination Summary, review pages 693-712 of the Wheeler text in this week's Learning Resources.
- Identify a client who may be ready to complete therapy.
The Assignment
With the client you selected in mind, address the following in a client termination summary (without violating HIPAA regulations):
- Identifying information of client (i.e., hypothetical name, age, etc.)
- Date initially contacted therapist, date therapy began, duration of therapy, and date therapy will end
- Total number of sessions, including number of missed sessions
- Termination planned or unplanned
- Presenting problem
- Major psychosocial issues
- Types of services rendered (i.e., individual, couple/family therapy, group therapy, etc.)
- Overview of treatment process
- Goal status (goals met, partially met, unmet)
- Treatment limitations (if any)
- Remaining difficulties and/or concerns
- Recommendations
- Follow-up plan (if indicated)
- Instructions for future contact
- Signatures
Assignment Practicum
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Analyze how nursing and counseling theories guided personal practice in psychotherapy*
- Analyze goals and objectives for personal practicum experiences*
- Analyze the impact of psychotherapy on social change*
Reflect on your overall practicum experience in this course. Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal:
- Explain whether your therapeutic theory has changed as a result of your practicum experiences. Recall the theories you selected in Week 1.
- Explain how you integrated the therapeutic approaches from this course in your clinical practice. Include how this helped you achieve the goals and objectives you developed in Week 1.
- Explain how you might impact social change through your work with clients who have mental health issues.
- Support your approach with evidence-based literature.