Instructions Your final paper will be about the process of termination. Using th

Instructions
Your final paper will be about the process of termination. Using the social work literature, talk about the concept of the termination process. Use the prompts below to guide your writing.
Using the social work literature, talk about the concept of the termination process.
Why is termination such an important part of social work?  Why can’t we just say, “so long” and move on?  Discuss the process of termination as it relates to your current field placement and the clients you serve.
How will termination at your field placement and with your clients affect you? How do you relate to ending/termination in other areas of your life?  Apply this to the social work knowledge related to conscious use of self and self-awareness
Select a client/case from your current caseload (or one with whom you have already terminated).  Keep in mind that a case can be an individual, a family, a couple, a group, or a community and need not be a client/case that you see weekly, but one with whom you have repeated contact.
Reflecting on your work with this client/case as you come to the end of your time together:
Identify the interventions that were particularly useful in your work together.
What theory of change informed the interventions you employed? What challenges did you and the client have in implementing the interventions you identified above and how did they contribute to the client’s growth, self-awareness and coping? What would you have changed looking back on your work together?
Thinking about termination:
Identify which social work skills/interventions are specific to endings and are necessary for a successful termination? What are the factors that led up to this termination? Is/was this a planned or unplanned termination? What are some of the common pitfalls social workers often fall into around termination
How did you implement some of these skills in the termination process? How did you introduce termination to the client/case? Were the responses/reactions what you anticipated? Discuss both yours and the client’s response to termination. What concerns do you have for the client regarding termination?
If you did not have an opportunity to terminate, as you would have wished, how do you imagine this might have taken place?  What were your hopes for the client? How do you think they benefited from your time together?
If your work with the client, or if the issues confronting the client were influenced by the pandemic and/or shifts in the delivery of service, please consider how the current environment has influenced your work with the client, and how your own intersection with the pandemic may have affected your work.
How do you think issues of intersectionality, ie. gender, culture, and socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, age, and religion affected your work together and the termination process? How would you appraise your client’s access to and use of needed services? Were there any obstacles for you or the client to overcome during the helping process?
Include a part of a process recording where you talk to a client about saying goodbye and ending your working relationship.  What skills are evident in this process recording? What is your self-assessment of your work in this particular area of termination?  What could you have done differently?
Turn in your final paper by the due date.
Your paper should be an 8–10 page Word document and needs to demonstrate integration of the literature.
Your assignment should include a minimum of five references beyond the required texts in this course, including peer-reviewed journal articles and material from suggested readings and related readings. You might want to use some of the articles listed on Module 5: Summary page (Link will open in new tab.).
APA (7th Edition) is required throughout the assignment and for the reference page.