Question: Your client has been in individual therapy with you for the past 3 months and has shown much growth and improvement in functioning and insight and is to discontinue services within the next few weeks. In the next session, after you discuss service termination, the client suddenly begins to demonstrate the original symptoms that had brought them to treatment. Now the client is hesitant to discharge, wants to continue services, and is displaying an increase in regressive defense mechanisms. What is the best explanation for this behavior? Need Assignment Help?
Question options:
- An exacerbation of her symptoms related to stress
- A sign of pathological attachment to the therapist that must be addressed
- The normal cyclic nature of chronic mental health symptoms
- A sign of normal resistance to termination seen in the termination phase of therapy