Exam 3: Specifying Problems and Goals: Targets of Intervention

A target refers to the specific object of preventive or interventive services that is relevant in a given situation

Targets may be vague, so long as they are meaningful and important to the client.

Goals refer to long-term outcomes of the service program, while objectives mean short- term or intermediate outcomes.

Client outcome objectives include the practitioner's interventive activities that will help the client achieve his/her goals.

The focus in thinking about countability of problems is on "what" and "when" issues rather than "why" issues.

"The practitioner will provide systematic desensitization to decrease anxiety" is a clear, appropriate statement for the "who" segment of a goal.

There is no way to dereify an idea, once a client has it firmly in mind that he or she is suffering from some non-measurable problem.

The specific predictions about how much success is expected in GAS are actually the goals for the client.

Goals should always be selected prior to the assessment so you can focus more specifically on the variables you want to assess.

Evaluation, like practice, starts "where the client is."

A way of knowing that the problem does exist and of documenting when and where it occurs is called a

The text recommends the use of statistics to establish goals when you have a precise, specific criterion already established, e.g., a goal of losing 20 pounds in 6 weeks.