3. • Goals are necessary in treatment as they guide the treatment and what direction
you and the client take in order to help them.
• Goals are mutually established.
• The client needs to be invested in the goal so that they can have a certain level of
motivation.
• There are manuals that help with goal writing and can be helpful to the new
therapist.
• Exception finding questions can help to develop goals.
4. • Positive goals – It can be helpful to focus on what the client wants to do.
• When a goal is met, it can lead to accomplishing even more difficult goals.
• What do you want to do instead?
• Treatment plan is designed and signed. Most agencies have short-term goals that
are reassessed every 90 days as well as a long term goal that is assessed yearly.
Clients sign the Tx plan on a 3-month basis or whenever changes are made.
5. • Review the scenario passed out to you and in your groups choose 2 goals that
you feel would be helpful for this client and write them out using the SMART
acronym. Pay attention to the example on the board.
