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| The ethically and clinically appropriate process by which a professional relationship is ended; An intentional process that occurs over time when a patient has achieved most of the goals of treatment, and/or when psychotherapy must end for other reasons |
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| Represents the failure of the psychologist to take the clinically indicated and ethically appropriate steps to terminate a professional relationship |
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| Occurs when psychologists know that further treatment is needed, but nonetheless terminate or withhold services or a referral |
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| Abandonment-Unintentional |
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| Occurs when psychologists terminate treatment when they did not know but should have known that further treatment was needed, and consequently, the patient suffers harm or harms another |
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| Interruption of Psychological Services |
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| Unless otherwise covered by contract, psychologists make reasonable efforts to plan for facilitating services in the event that psychological services are interrupted by factors such as the psychologist’s illness, death, unavailability, relocation, or retirement or by the client’s/patient/s relocations or financial limitations. |
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| Client no longer needs services or is not likely to benefit, or is being harmed by continued service, harmful multiple relationship; pre-termination counseling and suggest alternative service providers as appropriate; impaired competence |
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| The psychologist has been threatened or otherwise endangered by the client or another person with whom the client has a relationship. |
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