Describe the need for clear and concise counseling goals. How will you be sure to set clear and concise goals for your clients?

What will be an ideal response?


?The counseling relationship is the vehicle in which you will drive with your client toward the goals the two of you have set for your work.
?What happens in the relationship is about the process of the counseling journey. The goals are about the destination or the outcome of the trip. To reach the goals, you need to pay attention to the journey. The outcomes are dependent on the process.
?Generally, your overall goals will serve as a backdrop for all other specifically articulated goals. Regardless of the client’s level of functioning, good counseling outcomes are dependent upon clarity and specificity of goals.
?The goals are stated concretely and positively so that they are approached with enthusiasm and a sense of optimism.
?Goals should be easily understood by both you and your client.
?Good counseling goals are couched in terms of behavioral change, affording the potential for actually measuring counseling outcomes

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