Closing or Termination Phase

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Closing or Termination Phase

• The Session
• The group

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Closing The Session

• Goals of Closing session
• Summarization of main points
• Reinforcing commitments
• Checking for unfinished business

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Formats for closing a session

• Rounds what have you learned, etc
• Dyads beneficial when much has happened but no
  time for a round or more extensive
• Members summarize
• Leader summarize
• Written reactions

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Helpful Skills

• Clarify purpose of closing, not to bring up new
  topics
• Cutting off cant get into new material
• Tying together, synthesizing
• Drawing out
• Wishes
• Acknowledging a new member

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• Acknowledge member who is leaving
• Alerting members to reactions outside the group
• Handling criticisms of the session

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Termination of Group
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Goals of termination

• Summarize
• Leader summarize
• Get members to summarize their experience
• Facilitate exercises to do this
• Assess members growth
• Important to emphasize this

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• Finishing business
• Tie up any loose ends
• Generalizing change to life
• What have they learned that will stay
  incorporated into life
• Reunion fantasy
• Providing feedback leader provide or have
  members provide that about each other

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• Handling goodbyes
• Leader acknowledge ambivalent feelings
• Model expression
• Allow members process or rituals for goodbye
• Guard against ending with strong emotion, set
  positive tone, it is a beginning, not an ending
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• Planning for follow up
• Help members in their transition
• Do they want a reunion?
• Write themselves letters given to leader who will
  mail to each at some point in the future

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Evaluation

• Exit interviews
• Formal assessment

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