TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting meaningful goals in rehabilitation: rationale and practical tool
AU - Dekker, Joost
AU - de Groot, Vincent
AU - ter Steeg, Anne Marie
AU - Vloothuis, Judith
AU - Holla, Jasmijn
AU - Collette, Emma
AU - Satink, Ton
AU - Post, Lenneke
AU - Doodeman, Suzan
AU - Littooij, Elsbeth
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Context: Goal-setting is a key characteristic of modern rehabilitation. However, goals need to be meaningful and of importance to the client. Axioms: Both theories and empirical evidence support the importance of a hierarchy of goals: one or more overall goals that clients find personally meaningful and specific goals that are related to the overall goals. We posit that the client’s fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes (“global meaning”) need to be explored before setting any rehabilitation goal. A chaplain or other person with similar skills can be involved in doing so in an open-ended way. The client’s fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes serve as a point of departure for setting rehabilitation goals. Setting goals: We set out a three-stage process to set goals: (1) exploring the client’s global meaning (i.e. fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes), (2) deriving a meaningful overall rehabilitation goal from the client’s global meaning and (3) setting specific rehabilitation goals that serve to achieve the meaningful overall rehabilitation goal. Conclusion: This is an extension of current practice in many rehabilitation teams, which may help counter the drive toward exclusively functional goals based around independence.
AB - Context: Goal-setting is a key characteristic of modern rehabilitation. However, goals need to be meaningful and of importance to the client. Axioms: Both theories and empirical evidence support the importance of a hierarchy of goals: one or more overall goals that clients find personally meaningful and specific goals that are related to the overall goals. We posit that the client’s fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes (“global meaning”) need to be explored before setting any rehabilitation goal. A chaplain or other person with similar skills can be involved in doing so in an open-ended way. The client’s fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes serve as a point of departure for setting rehabilitation goals. Setting goals: We set out a three-stage process to set goals: (1) exploring the client’s global meaning (i.e. fundamental beliefs, goals and attitudes), (2) deriving a meaningful overall rehabilitation goal from the client’s global meaning and (3) setting specific rehabilitation goals that serve to achieve the meaningful overall rehabilitation goal. Conclusion: This is an extension of current practice in many rehabilitation teams, which may help counter the drive toward exclusively functional goals based around independence.
KW - Goal-setting
KW - chaplaincy
KW - meaning
KW - rehabilitation
KW - tool
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31530186
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215519876299
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215519876299
M3 - Article
C2 - 31530186
SN - 0269-2155
VL - 34
SP - 3
EP - 12
JO - Clinical rehabilitation
JF - Clinical rehabilitation
IS - 1
ER -