COE Positive Termination of Relationships - JHF
Members of the healthcare team will learn tactics and strategies for positive termination of client relationships including laying groundwork at the beginning of the relationship managing the client through individualized recovery goals and providing support in navigating the end stages of care to promote long-term recovery.
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Establishing the Relationship for Positive Termination
- Importance of good beginnings.
- Setting expectations about role, function, and limitations of peer support.
- Goal setting and boundaries.
- Managing the Therapeutic Alliance with the End in Mind
- Building trust, credibility, and hope.
- Avoiding overdependence while fostering autonomy.
- Integrating Many Pathways into Peer Programs
- Talking, educating, assessing, and creating supports for multiple recovery pathways.
- Clinical, non-clinical, and self-managed pathways.
- Navigating the Termination Phase of Peer Support
- Five key principles: Safety, Trust & Transparency, Collaboration, Choice, and Voice.
- Observations and considerations in termination.
- Parallel process dynamics for both peer workers and persons served.
- Supervision and Support in Termination
- Processing feelings and strategies for recovery beyond care.
- Framing growth, termination planning, and sustaining progress.
- Reflection and Ritual
- Using reflection to highlight growth and strengths.
- Incorporating rituals (e.g., tokens, symbolic closure) to support healthy endings.
- Discussion
Target Audience
- Nurse
- Physician
- Social Worker
Learning Objectives
• Explore setting the stage for positive termination from the point of engagement by emphasizing the role, function, and limitations of peer support services.
• Develop insight into managing the therapeutic alliance through individualized recovery goals, addressing ruptures in the alliance, and strengthening recovery capital during the working stages of the peer support relationship.
• Describe how to support the person in care in navigating the end stages of care to promote long-term recovery.
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Members of the healthcare team will learn tactics and strategies for positive termination of client relationships including laying groundwork at the beginning of the relationship managing the client through individualized recovery goals and providing support in navigating the end stages of care to promote long-term recovery.
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Establishing the Relationship for Positive Termination
- Importance of good beginnings.
- Setting expectations about role, function, and limitations of peer support.
- Goal setting and boundaries.
- Managing the Therapeutic Alliance with the End in Mind
- Building trust, credibility, and hope.
- Avoiding overdependence while fostering autonomy.
- Integrating Many Pathways into Peer Programs
- Talking, educating, assessing, and creating supports for multiple recovery pathways.
- Clinical, non-clinical, and self-managed pathways.
- Navigating the Termination Phase of Peer Support
- Five key principles: Safety, Trust & Transparency, Collaboration, Choice, and Voice.
- Observations and considerations in termination.
- Parallel process dynamics for both peer workers and persons served.
- Supervision and Support in Termination
- Processing feelings and strategies for recovery beyond care.
- Framing growth, termination planning, and sustaining progress.
- Reflection and Ritual
- Using reflection to highlight growth and strengths.
- Incorporating rituals (e.g., tokens, symbolic closure) to support healthy endings.
- Discussion
William Stauffer, LSW, PMAC, PECS – Executive Director, Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A)
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 1.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.25 ASWB
- 1.25 Attendance

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