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

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

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)

Interactive PDF

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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?

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?

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?