Goals
SolveFit Tracker is a valuable tool in helping practitioners, case workers, clinicians and coaches keep focus around the needs of their clients — including their priorities, preferences, sense of direction, frustrations, wishes, and desires around seeing change.
Our approach to goals
Since launch in 2011, we've been passionate about keeping the focus on what's important to clients. We've always had the ability to measure goals set by clients alongside improvements in their problems. SolveFit Tracker has been adapted so that the Goals feature aligns with Goal-based outcomes (GBO) methodology — in particular the work of Professor Duncan Law.
Goal-based outcomes (GBOs)
We've become aware of a growing body of literature around goal-based outcomes. SolveFit Tracker's Goals feature is designed to fall into line with established paper-based GBO systems, making it easy to transition to or complement existing approaches.
From "Working with goals in psychotherapy and counselling" — Cooper & Law
"Recent evidence suggests that working with goals in counselling and psychotherapy can support positive therapeutic change. Goals can empower clients and give them hope: helping them feel that they have the capacity to act towards achieving their desired futures. Goals can help focus, and direct, clients' and therapists' attention, building a better therapeutic alliance. Through negotiating and setting goals, clients can develop a deeper insight into what it is they really want in life: a crucial first step towards being able to get there. Policy developments in both child and adult mental health services support the use of goals in therapy. Goal-setting and goal-tracking can help to ensure that therapy is personalised to the individual client: so that they are working towards objectives that are of genuine importance to them."
Using goals in SolveFit Tracker
Goals are captured in the client's own language and rated session by session. As with Problems, you can track change on individual goals and view the aggregate alongside validated measure scores. Goals can be added or updated as treatment progresses and new aspirations emerge.
Problems or Goals?
SolveFit Tracker offers both tools. You can use whichever best suits your clinical approach — or use both together for a fuller picture. The key is to track change in the areas most important to your client.