The treatment plan involved using client-centered therapy to allow her to process her emotions about her husband leaving her. The goal was to allow her to fully examine her feelings and be able to deal with them. Subsequently, the hope was to allow the intensity of his feelings to subside and to be able to live without the constant feeling of loss and emptiness. The second aim was to address ways in which Judith could gain independence in her daily life with household life management tasks, but this was addressed with psychoeducational interventions in addition to client-centred therapy. Ward and Hogan (2015) reported that “at the end of therapy Judith seemed subjectively more confident and less emotionally distressed. Behaviorally, she was attending community rehabilitation, had completed her divorce, had successfully moved into a new home, and was able to cope with everyday life with the support of her children” (p. 16). This conclusion, at the end of her two-year therapy session, was that they had reached the level of self-realization and had taken control of her thoughts and actions by being able to move forward after her husband's departure
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