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Meaningful Goal Setting Session 4

Meaningful Goal Setting Session 4. December 2, 2011 Maggie Brett, L.C.S.W. mmibrett@gmail.com. Agenda. Check-In—questions, comments, thoughts about last session; issues with families; experience with reflection Quick look back Challenges to sustaining movement toward goals

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Meaningful Goal Setting Session 4

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  1. Meaningful Goal SettingSession 4 December 2, 2011 Maggie Brett, L.C.S.W. mmibrett@gmail.com

  2. Agenda • Check-In—questions, comments, thoughts about last session; issues with families; experience with reflection • Quick look back • Challenges to sustaining movement toward goals • Case consultation • Reflection

  3. Reviewing what we’ve talked about so far:

  4. Keeping goals alive in your work • Be familiar with the goals • Check in without “checking up” • If possible, find something in the agenda of each visit that can relate to one or more of the goals • “I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but I see…”

  5. At review time: • Goals met should be celebrated! • Goals meaningfully in process should also be celebrated and perhaps recalibrated for next time frame • If some goals are not met or meaningfully in process, examine together what happened • If applicable, own your responsibility in goals falling short • Re-examine readiness • If client still wants to work towards goal, reframe it before writing it down

  6. Common challenges to meeting goals • On-going—(e.g., culture and community, developmental issues, mental illness, family structure and relationships) need to be anticipated as much as possible and built into the development of the goals • Episodic—(e.g., life stresses, living situations, crises) Can also sometimes be anticipated, but often need to be responded to as needed

  7. Challenge 1: Family Structure and Relationships/Third party resistance • Always important to have a good handle on family structure and relationships • Genograms can be invaluable tools to visualize family structure and relationships • Clues to third party resistance: “I’m not going to tell my husband about this one…,” “I’m so glad you agree with me and not my mom…,” “It’s not how it’s usually done in our family, but I’ll try…” • Always remember who your client is • Third party resistance can be a mask for ambivalence • After assessing (a case by case decision) and with your client’s permission, include the third party in your visit. Using an educative and supportive approach, be your client’s advocate.

  8. Challenge 2: Culture and community • Absolutely crucial to be culturally knowledgeable and sensitive • Also to be aware of particular vulnerabilities of recent immigrants vs. those more assimilated • Cautious of imposing our goals too soon • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vupEpNjCuY

  9. Challenge 3: Developmental Issues • Competing developmental needs • PTSD and stunted development • Developmental delays

  10. Case Consultation

  11. Capture your Thoughts (York-Barr, et al, 2001)

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