Every year, students prematurely end their work with some clients due to the completion of their internship, rather than the client's achievement of goals and thus a more natural endpoint of treatment. It is important to understand students' experiences with forced termination to provide them with the necessary knowledge, skills, and support to optimally manage this complex phenomenon. This paper reviews the social work literature on forced termination arising from the ending of students' internships and presents, in their own words, the experiences of four first-year MSW interns with forced termination. Finally, based on the literature and as borne out by these students' experiences, some areas for discussion and reflection between interns and their supervisors in handling forced termination are offered.
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