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The Goal-Based Outcome (GBO) Tool

Goals Form (Cooper, 2015)

Bern Inventory of Treatment Goals (BIT-T)

Carers’ Assessment of Difficulties Index (CADI)

Carers’ Assessment of Satisfactions Index (CASI)

Carer’s Assessment Of Managing Index (CAMI)

Measuring outcomes for Carers for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties- tool to help assess general areas of goal creation. Adapted from Harvey et al. (2005)

Adult Carer Quality of Life- Questionnaire (AC-QoL)

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943)

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Choice of worksheets for creating SMART Goals with clients- SMART Goals # 1 and # 2

Miracle Question

‘ABC’ framework (Ellis, 2001)

Goal Setting in Low Intensity CBT(Physical Health Series)- complete Booklet

A guide on The COM-B Model of Behaviour

Considerations around goal setting with Carers- resources and journal articles

Training video- Working with Goals in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Neuro-affirming practice in the context of goal-setting- journal article

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Common challenges to Goal Setting

Some advantages of Goal Setting

Exploration of client's values that can aid goal setting- values clarification worksheet, values discussion cards worksheet, values discussion questions

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory worksheet

Stages of Change worksheet

Treatment Planning Checklist

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Common challenges around Goal Setting as noted in the Interest Form Questionnaire 

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Common challenges around Goal Setting as noted in the Interest Form Questionnaire 

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Some benefits of using SMART Goals as noted in the Interest Form Questionnaire

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Some benefits of using SMART Goals as noted in the Interest Form Questionnaire

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Exploration of client's values- importance of goals reflecting client's values

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Exploration of client's values- importance of goals reflecting client's values

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Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory 

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Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory 

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Goal Setting in Low Intensity CBT(Physical Health Series)- complete Booklet

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Goal Setting in Low Intensity CBT(Physical Health Series)- complete Booklet

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Booklet that can be utilized with clients who experience physical health problems that is causing a decline in the their MH

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Considerations around goal setting with Carers

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Considerations around goal setting with Carers

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Example of a journal article- ''Barriers to accessing and receiving mental health care for paid and unpaid carers of older adults'' (Giebel et al., 2024)

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Barriers to accessing and receiving mental health care for paid and unpaid carers

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Considerations around goal setting for Carers # 2

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Considerations around goal setting for Carers # 2

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Example of a journal article-

"Barriers to Self-Care Planning for Family Caregivers of Patients with Severe Mental Illness" (Karimirad et al., 2022)

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Carers’ Assessment of Difficulties Index (CADI)

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Carers’ Assessment of Difficulties Index (CADI)

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Adult Carer Quality of Life- Questionnaire (AC-QoL)

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Adult Carer Quality of Life- Questionnaire (AC-QoL)

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Carers’ Assessment of Satisfactions Index (CASI)

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Carers’ Assessment of Satisfactions Index (CASI)

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Carer’s Assessment Of Managing Index (CAMI) 

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Carer’s Assessment Of Managing Index (CAMI) 

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Measuring outcomes for Carers for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties- tool to help assess general areas of goal creation. Adapted from Harvey et al. (2005)

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Measuring outcomes for Carers for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties- tool to help assess general areas of goal creation. Adapted from Harvey et al. (2005)

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from Harvey et al. (2005)

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Measuring outcomes for carers for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties

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Training video- Working with Goals in Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Training video- Working with Goals in Counselling and Psychotherapy

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Working with Goals in Counselling and Psychotherapy

In this video Mick explores the goals of a young adult Aaron who is experiencing difficulties with sleep. Mick and Aaron complete the 'Goals Form' together. The 'Goals Form' is one of a number of tools that can be used to help facilitate and track goals in counselling and psychotherapy - the information on the goals form can be dowloaded here and a blank PDF copy of the form can be downloaded here

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Working with Goals in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Goals in Therapy

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In this video Mick explores the goals of a young adult Aaron who is experiencing difficulties with sleep. Mick and Aaron complete the 'Goals Form' together.

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Interactive PDF

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Working with goals is a collaborative process, best done within a shared decision-making framework. If we listen well to our clients, their goals emerge from the stories they tell us about their lives, their difficulties, and things they would like to be different. Listening to these stories is part of what we all do in good, everyday therapeutic or clinical conversations. Using the GBO is a small step beyond usual clinical practice where, once the goals have emerged from conversation, we might help the client shape them, agree them together, and write them down to check we have both understood them. Once agreed we can be curious about where the client feels they are at in their journey towards making the changes in their lives that are important to them.

The Goal-Based Outcomes (GBO) tool is a simple and effective method to track and measure progress and outcomes of an intervention. It is one of the most widely used tools across mental health settings. The GBO grew out of mental health and can be used in any setting that is change-focused and goal-oriented, including physical health, high performance environments and sport.

The tool tracks what is arguably the most important thing to measure in any intervention: "Is this helping you make progress towards the things that you really want help with?"

The GBO is currently available in 9 different languages. If you want to help translate the GBO tool into another language please get in touch .
Download the GBO Tool with Guidance Notes

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Working with goals is a collaborative process, best done within a shared decision-making framework. If we listen well to our clients, their goals emerge from the stories they tell us about their lives, their difficulties, and things they would like to be different.

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Reflection points for Training Part 3- please do add your responses here if you wish

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Reflection points for Training Part 3- please do add your responses here if you wish

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Can you think of any cases in which goal- setting and tracking would be beneficial? Can you think of any cases in which goal- setting and tracking would be less useful? What are the key differences between these types of cases?

To what extent do you think goal- oriented practices complement, or interfere with, your own therapeutic orientation?

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Bern Inventory of Treatment Goals (BIT-T)

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Bern Inventory of Treatment Goals (BIT-T)

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Bern Inventory of Treatment Goals (BIT-T)

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Reflection points for Training Part 2- please do add your responses here if you wish

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Reflection points for Training Part 2- please do add your responses here if you wish

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What one thing could you change in your practice to make goal- setting more useful for the client?

If a client nominated a goal of indifference in the face of an adversity, how

would you respond?

What is your view on the issue of clients wanting to feel less anxious in the

face of threat?

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Reflection points for Training Part 1- please do add your responses here if you wish

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Reflection points for Training Part 1- please do add your responses here if you wish

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What were the ‘acceptable’ or socially approved life goals in the family and community within which you grew up? In what ways do you continue to be motivated to accomplish these goals? What new goals have you developed for yourself? What were the life experiences that contributed to the emergence of these new personal goals? What are the implications for your approach as a therapist (or any other helping role) of your reflections on these processes of goal change?

Identify two (or more) personal life goals or projects that appear to be mutually incompatible. For example: ‘I want to travel the world’ and ‘I want to get a secure job so I can buy my own home’. What are the values positions that underpin each of these goals? Is there an overarching source of value that might allow you to bridge these competing goals?