Time to say good-bye?
I’m talking about completing therapy. It is time? Or not yet?
I think this is a question that often comes up for both clients and therapists. And it is clear that it can be resolved in very different ways. Here, as usual in our business, there are no universal and only correct algorithms.
But, of course, there are some “beacons”, signs that we can pay attention to when we think about how timely this completion is.
And now I want to identify such “beacons” specifically during psychotherapeutic work with children.
The most obvious sign of the possibility of completing therapy is the leveling of the main symptom that initially served as the reason for contacting a psychologist. Usually such a symptom still exists, even if there were many problems. For example, this could be some kind of fear of the child, certain difficulties in his behavior (fighting, stealing, making troubles about lessons, etc.), some other things that usually bothered parents the most when contacting a specialist.
But, in fact, only the cessation of the manifestation of a symptom is still often insufficient evidence that therapy can be ended.
After all, a child’s symptom is most often the tip of the iceberg, the way in which accumulated tension and trouble manifest itself. But this trouble itself can be much…
