GOAL DESCRIPTION

DEVELOPMENT GOALS - assist in meeting or advancing the client’s human

growth and development including social, personal,
emotional, cognitive and physical wellness.
PREVENTIVE GOALS - helps the client avoid some undesired outcome.
ENHANCEMENT GOALS - enhance special skills and abilities.
REMEDIAL GOALS - assisting the client to overcome and treat an
undesirable development.
EXPLORATORY GOALS - examining options, testing of skills, trying new and
different activities.
PSYCHOLOGICAL GOALS -aids in developing good social interaction skills,
learning emotional control, and developing positive
self- concept.
REINFORCEMENT GOALS - Helps client in recognizing that what they are
- thinking and doing is fine.
COGNITIVE GOALS -Involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning
GOAL and cognitive skills DESCRIPTION
INSIGHT
PHYSIOLOGICAL GOALS Inspiring
-Involvesinacquiring
the person thea basic
desireunderstanding
and capacity to care for
and
others and pass on
habits for good health. knowledge and to contribute to the
collective good through political engagement and
community work.
RELATING WITH Becoming better able to form and maintain meaningful
OTHERS and satisfying relationships with other people.
SELF-AWARENESS Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings that had
been blocked off or denied, or developing a more
accurate sense of how self is perceived by others.
SELF-ACCEPTANCE The development of a positive attitude toward self,
marked by an ability to acknowledge areas of
experience that had been the subject of self-criticism
and rejection.
PROBLEM SOLVING Finding a solution to a specific problem that the client
(1) A licensed professional counselorhad may render
not been to individuals,
able groups,
to serve alone. Acquiring a general
organizations, or the general public counseling
competenceservices involving the application of
in problem-solving.
clinical counseling principles, methods,
PSYCHOLOGICAL or procedures
Enabling the clientto toassist individuals
acquire ideas andintechniques with
achieving EDUCATION
more effective personal, social,
whicheducational,
to understand or and
career development
control behavior and
adjustment. ACQUISITION OF Learning and mastering a social and interpersonal skills
SOCIAL SKILLS such as maintenance of eye contact, turn- taking in
conversations, assertiveness or anger control
(2) "ApplyCOGNITIVE
clinical counseling
CHANGEprinciples,
The methods, andorprocedures,"
replacementmeans an
modification of irrational beliefs or
approach to counseling that emphasizes the counselor's role in systematically
maladaptive thought patterns associated with self-
assisting clients through all of the following: Assessing and
destructive patterns of analyzing
behavior. emotional
conditions, exploring possible solutions, and developing and providing a treatment
BEHAVIOR CHANGE The modification or replacement of maladaptive or self-
plan for mental and emotional adjustment or development. It may include
destructive patterns of behavior.
counseling, appraisal, consulting, supervision, administration and referral.
SYSTEMIC CHANGE Introducing change into the way in that social systems
operate
(3) EngageEMPOWERMENT Working
in the diagnosis and treatment on skills,and
of mental awareness,
emotionaland knowledge
disorders when that will
under the supervision of a professional clinical counselor, psychologist, psychiatrist, life.
enable the client to take control of his or her own
RESTITUTION Helping the client to make amends for previous
destructive behavior
GENERATIVITY Inspiring in the person a desire and capacity to care for
others and pass on knowledge and to contribute to the
collective good through political engagement and
community work.
independent marriage and family therapist, or independent social worker.

(4) Provide training supervision for students and registered counselor trainees
when services are within their scope of practice, which does not include supervision
of the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.