Professional Helping in Practice 3: Reflective Practice & Client Termination

Reflective practice is an essential piece of the clinical process and supports ethical relationships within the helping profession. Furthermore, the termination stage of the counselling relationship is a highly sensitive and valuable process that supports ongoing recovery goals for clients. Students develop and present a treatment plan and receive critical feedback to support client service delivery. Students explore techniques for delivering and receiving constructive feedback through group supervision. Students practise the client termination stage of the counselling process and integrate therapeutic skills acquired through earlier courses to support closure. Through group supervision meetings, self-reflections, mock counselling sessions, client treatment and termination plan development, students culminate the skills required to professionally close the client relationship.