Setting goals is very important to the achievement of counselling. It involves making an obligation to a set of conditions to a course of action or an outcome.
John Norcross, a researcher that has been studying goals and change for many years defines a goal as “a mental representation of a desired outcome that a person is committed to”. Goals are the results or outcomes that a client wants to achieve at the end of counselling. With clear goals, clients are more likely to be motivated to work towards achieving those goals.
The counsellor helps the client to search specific areas and begin to identify goals that the client wants to achieve. Without goals, the sessions will be useless. Goals within counselling help to set the tone and direction …show more content…
Once the goals have been established, the client must accept responsibility and assume ownership for them. Hawkins (1987) even suggests that the counsellor and client might wish to enter into a contract to ensure that the goals are accomplished. The counsellor needs to ensure that the client sets S.M.A.R.T. goals for themselves. By setting smart goals, the client describes and shapes a goal. Consider the following example: 'Botlhale will improve her writing comprehension skills.' A SMART goal would be written like this: 'Botlhale will be able to write a 5-paragraph story at a sixth-grade level by June 1, 2016.' That’s a specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time-bound …show more content…
Alternatives are suggested as tentative or possible solutions. They should not be evaluated nor should a preference be given for the best alternative. Evaluation and judgment tends to decrease the number of alternatives. The goal here is to come up with as many viable solutions as possible.
At most times advice tends to inhibit rather than encourage communication. However, here because the advice is given within the context of brainstorming and is only tentative, it is all right for the counsellor to provide suggestions. At other times it is not a good idea.
The counsellor may want to assist in generating alternatives by listing and organizing the alternatives on a sheet of paper or on a board. In brainstorming you build upon the ideas that have already been generated and so it helps to have the ideas in front of you. At the point that no more ideas are forth coming, the counsellor summarizes the alternatives. This might actually help in bringing forth other ideas. After summarizing the ideas, the counsellor suggests they go on to evaluating the ideas before deciding on the best
John Norcross, a researcher that has been studying goals and change for many years defines a goal as “a mental representation of a desired outcome that a person is committed to”. Goals are the results or outcomes that a client wants to achieve at the end of counselling. With clear goals, clients are more likely to be motivated to work towards achieving those goals.
The counsellor helps the client to search specific areas and begin to identify goals that the client wants to achieve. Without goals, the sessions will be useless. Goals within counselling help to set the tone and direction …show more content…
Once the goals have been established, the client must accept responsibility and assume ownership for them. Hawkins (1987) even suggests that the counsellor and client might wish to enter into a contract to ensure that the goals are accomplished. The counsellor needs to ensure that the client sets S.M.A.R.T. goals for themselves. By setting smart goals, the client describes and shapes a goal. Consider the following example: 'Botlhale will improve her writing comprehension skills.' A SMART goal would be written like this: 'Botlhale will be able to write a 5-paragraph story at a sixth-grade level by June 1, 2016.' That’s a specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time-bound …show more content…
Alternatives are suggested as tentative or possible solutions. They should not be evaluated nor should a preference be given for the best alternative. Evaluation and judgment tends to decrease the number of alternatives. The goal here is to come up with as many viable solutions as possible.
At most times advice tends to inhibit rather than encourage communication. However, here because the advice is given within the context of brainstorming and is only tentative, it is all right for the counsellor to provide suggestions. At other times it is not a good idea.
The counsellor may want to assist in generating alternatives by listing and organizing the alternatives on a sheet of paper or on a board. In brainstorming you build upon the ideas that have already been generated and so it helps to have the ideas in front of you. At the point that no more ideas are forth coming, the counsellor summarizes the alternatives. This might actually help in bringing forth other ideas. After summarizing the ideas, the counsellor suggests they go on to evaluating the ideas before deciding on the best