ABSTRACT
There are now two "classic" versions of termination, essentially arising out of the two major theoretical schools of therapy work. The more recent cognitive-behavioural paradigm generally would hold that the client goes through the prescribed treatment in the manual and the therapy ends after the six or ten or 15 visits called for by the typical cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) protocol. The more analytic/relational narrative would hold that as the client stabilizes, works through the traumas, and moves toward healthier views of self, world, and relationship, he or she begins to reach out further to the community. Although it is likely preferable to conduct the planned termination, and to ensure that no constellations of unresolved transference feelings result in the drifting away, this is just not always possible. At termination and afterwards, clients do not then go on to lead perfect stress-less lives, and some have a need to re-engage in treatment.
