Week 7 dq1 response 2 449
Stephanie Flores
Hello Professor Smith and Classmates,
The University of California Office of the President has a guide on their website of what SMART goals are, with information specific to writing out your own SMART goals that fit what they should entail in order to be considered: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
In the context of social work, immeasurable goals would be goals that are vague and don’t pinpoint specifics of the goals that can be measured during the course of treatment and after for comparison. Immeasurable goals would make it difficult to later use as data to compare for progress. Three examples of immeasurable goals could be:
- Do better in school
- Spend time with family
- Get healthier
While these can be considered goals for improving your life, they fail to detail specifics within the goals that can be measured to some degree, and have no specific time frame mentioned.
A way to help a client go from an immeasurable goal to a measurable one, I would take a goal that they mentioned and break it down into specifics. If a client wants to be better at free throwing in basketball for instance, we could break that down into the client starting once a week taking 1 day to practice that sport for the next 2 months (i.e. every Wednesday night take 1 hour to practice free throw shots) You can even break it into being more specific by having the client record the number of shots missed and made and the total shots attempted overall. Over the course of those two months, the client could increase to two times a week or three, recording their progress along the way. At the end of the two month period, you would be able to see how the client has progressed from the first week to the final week. The beneficial part about SMART goals is that as they are in progress, you are able to see how the client has improved, and make adjustments to what is being done to achieve the goal if things are not working. This is of course a random example and a clients goals will likely be more specific to goals that are relevant to the identified issue but I hope my explanation was able to give a clear picture of how an immeasurable goal can be turned into a measurable goal by getting more specific.
What are your thoughts class?
Respectfully,
Stephanie
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