Goal setting, tasks, formulating contracts Flashcards
Types of goals for individual:
Set goals regarding 3 functions
- Cognitive functioning (e.g. reduce negative thinking about body image)
- Emotional functioning (e.g. reduce frequency of anxious feelings)
- Behavioral functioning (e.g. reduce over-eating)
Types of goals for couple/family:
2 goals to set
- Shared goals (e.g. partners listen to each other without interrupting)
- Reciprocal goals (e.g. wife will increase husband telling her feelings; husband will listen without interrupting)
PURPOSE OF GOALS
Goals specify what clients wish to ? and are utilized as a means to facilitate ?.
- accomplish
2. desired outcomes
Purpose of goals/Functions in helping process:
1. Ensure that ? about goals for treatment.
practitioners & clients are in agreement
Purpose of goals/Functions in helping process:
2. Provide ? to the helping process.
direction
Purpose of goals/Functions in helping process:
3. Facilitate development of appropriate ?
intervention strategies
Purpose of goals/Functions in helping process:
4. Assist clients & practitioners ?
monitor progress
Purpose of goals/Functions in helping process:
5. Serve as ?? in evaluating practice effectiveness
outcome criteria
Process of goal setting:
1. Determine client’s ?
readiness
Process of goal setting:
2. Explain ? of goals
purpose
Process of goal setting:
- Jointly select appropriate goals
a. Ask: “?”
b. Include mandated goals for involuntary clients
a. if we succeed in our work together how will you think & behave differently?
Process of goal setting:
- Define goals ?
a. Example question: “You have set decreasing your depression as a goal. What would be the signs that you have achieved that?”
specifically
Process of goal setting:
- Determine ? of goals & discuss ?vs ?
a. Ask:
feasibility
benefits versus risks.
example “What obstacles do you think will get in the way of…”
Process of goal setting:
6. Assist clients to make a choice about ? to specific goals
committing themselves
Process of goal setting:
7. Rank goals according to?
clients’ priorities.
Guidelines for goal setting:
1. Needs to be mutually agreeable.
For involuntary clients, have ?, and be clear about ?
agreeable mandate strategy
what you have to report to the court
Guidelines for goal setting
2. It needs to be Explicit and measurable
The difference between discreet goals and continuous goals? what is discreet tasks?
Discreet: One-time actions
Continous: ongoing
Guidelines for goal setting
3. It needs to commensurate with?
worker’s skill
Guidelines for goal setting
4. Goals must be ?
feasible
Guidelines for goal setting
5. Goal needs to emphasize?
positive growth / strength based
Guidelines for goal setting
6. Worker should avoid agreeing to goals where he or she has ?
major reservations
Guidelines for goal setting
7. Goals must be consistent with ?
agency functions/scope
What is partializing goal?
breaking down goals into steps
Examples of goals and tasks
1. Goals: Improve marital communication. what would be tasks?
Listen without interrupting and check out meaning and increase frequency of positive messages
