Exam 7: Crafting Goals and Objectives

The goal of a particular program is to reduce rates of hospital admissions by 20% over the next 12 months. In evaluating the program, it is important that the applied measurable objectives meet three properties. The three properties are:

Nohra, a client of a domestic violence program, believes that her service goals and objectives need to be modified. She is concerned that they are not realistic and that she is not progressing as quickly as she initially anticipated. What is the definition of an objective?

A Clinical Director is planning to implement a treatment program for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. As part of the planning, the director has been exploring "best practice" interventions to implement as part of service delivery. Ideally, the intervention's goals should:

A crime prevention program has been implemented in the community for the last four years. The Program administrators want to establish new goals for the next calendar year. Therefore, they have several meetings and decide that the main goal of the program will be to reduce the state's crime rates to zero percent. What is problematic about this goal?

Social work clinicians and administrators are working on developing goals for a program, as well as goals for clients. For some goals, there is consensus among the professionals; however, there have been strong debates about the appropriateness of other goals. What differentiates program from practice goals?

Mrs. Murphy is in need of supportive services to assist her in developing self-care skills so that she can remain living in her current home independently in the community. Which of the following is the appropriate measurable objective that should be included in her treatment plan?

Kate, utilizing a person-centered approach, develops goals by collaborating with her clients and their respective natural supports, when available. Together, they design goals that can be met over the course of the next three to six months, as well as long-term goals that can be met in a year. . What characteristic of a goal is being described in this vignette?

The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) surveyed the goals of an Assertive Community Treatment Team. The recommendations suggested that clients would be more likely to achieve personal goals if they had access to vocational rehabilitation and substance abuse services. What is one of the functions of program and practice goals?

Alice is creating practice objectives for clients of an older adult hospice program. She is careful to include all of the principles for creating appropriate objectives; yet, she is experiencing difficulty in meeting the criteria for the subject in the objectives. What group tends to be the emphasized as the subject in objectives?

Delaney, a clinical social worker, is working with a Hmong client who has limited resources to maintain his housing. In developing the person-centered goals with the client, which of the following most closely approximates the property "criteria?"