The retirement age is around 60-65 in almost every country. However you can still do private practice as long as you want. But still, there must be a personal limit dont you think?
I came across these articles:
Article Psychotherapists Growing Older: A Study of Senior Practitioners
Article Psychotherapist retirement and age-related impairment: Resul...
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/03/datapoint.aspx
https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/retirement-myths/
http://www.psychotherapyontario.org/when-the-psychotherapist-retires
Only death is the limit, concerning this profession, which is based on life-time experience. A reasonable reduction of working hours is appropriate, with respect to the state of health.
Michael Uebel , Stephen Cheung Stephen I. Ternyik thanks a lot. Any contradictive thoughts?
Paul: I once asked a Mentor how a person knows it is time to retire. The Mentor told me that you should retire when it is no longer fun and exciting to go to work. When you wake up every day and dread going to work, then it is time to retire.
Each person is different. I know some people who continue to perform very good work in their late 70's but I also know people who are poor performers in their late 50's and should retire.
Yes, if you are responsible for others in your work you need to make sure you are up to the task.
Thanks dear colleagues,
So, in general you mean, self-assessment of therapist is essential?
One feels that the primary indicator is the quality of therapeutic endeavour.
There is no magical age to retire as a therapist or from any other profession. The moment the therapist feels that they are starting to lose interest in their work, caring less about their clients, even starting to dislike their clients, starting to feel burnt out...... - is when to retire.
What you have astutely observed is true. In particular, the therapists have a very sensitive profession, and as a result, at the age of retirement , they should stop work. Notably, there is a limit to workoholism.
Great ideas, thanks all! @Reza Biria, @Srini Vasan, and @ James Wylie
I would like to add: evaluations and assessments; quantifying and qualifying reliability and validity of practice from various resources as determinant factors; inclusively, not exclusively. :)
Dear Ali Semerci,
First of all, to be a therapist, you are supposed to undergo psychotherapy as a part of your training just like having supervision from a master. Nevertheless, while working as a therapist you can always go back to another therapy experience, if and when life brings you a crisis. That does not mean that you can not be therapist if you need help at some point in your life. Thanks
Dear Gloria Wagner,
T hanks for valuable contribution. Yes the decision should be multifactorial.
Hello, It is very sad that this support and this particular therapy context can no longer be available to you. It is also sad that the timing is so bad now that you’ve got this new issue of abuse memories to discuss.
Dear @ Karen A. Darbinyan ,
I think there is a misunderstanding, this is not my case, I am not under therapy with abuse issues, but I am a therapist myself for a long time, and thinking of retirement. Maybe you were just on the wrong page?
Any profession that stops or slows down on the development and updating of data and methods, in which it is preferable to step aside, regardless of age, especially those professions related to public health
therapist should quit and get retired
with age
when his therapy is not giving desired results due to some unknown reason
new therapy available and he is not taking training/becoming expert in new therapy
I think when the joy of discovery work with clients begins to feel routine and mundane and the passion for this work has started to fade out
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