Termination: Extending the concept for macro social work practice

This article identifies the ways in which macro practitioners manage and re spond to termination issues in organization and community arenas. To concep tualize and partialize problems related to termination, the authors develop ed a typology in which the purposes, roles, and tasks related to macro term ination situations are identified and grouped by three levels of practice: The Technical; The Managerial; and The Institutional. Within each part of t he typology the needs are articulated, objectives of the macro practitioner identified, and the role of the practitioner explicated. Several exemplars and an integrating vignette illustrate termination concerns, dilemmas, and the complexity of macro practice with the intent of recognizing the opport unities and constraints presented by issues of termination within macro pra ctice.