GOALS OF COUNSELLING

1.Development Goals – Assist in meaning or advancing

the clients human growth and development including
social, personal, emotional, cognitive, and physical
wellness.

2.Preventive Goals – helps the client avoid some

undesired outcome.

3.Enhancement Goals – enhance special skills and

abilities.
4. Remedial Goals – assisting a client to
overcome and treat an undesirable
development.
5. Exploratory Goals – examining options,
testing of skills, trying new and different
activities., etc.,
6. Reinforcement Goals - helps client in
recognizing that what they are doing, thinking
and feeling is fine.
7. Cognitive Goals – involves acquiring the
basic foundation of learning and cognitive
skills.
8. Physiology Goals – involves acquiring the
basic understanding and habits for good
health.
9. Psychological Goals - aids and developing
good social interaction skills, learning
emotional control, and developing positive
self – concept.
The Presented List of Counseling goals,
some of which are enhancement of the
above goals.
 Goals Description

Understanding of the origins and the

development of the emotional
Insight difficulties, leading to an increased
capacity to take rational control over
feelings and actions.
Becoming better able to form and
maintain meaningful and satisfying
Relating with others relationships with the other people. For
example, within the family or work
place.
Becoming more aware of thoughts and feelings
Self-awareness that had been blocked off or denied, or
developing a more accurate sense of how self is
perceived by others.
 Goals Description

The development of a positive attitude

toward self, marked by an ability to
Self-acceptance acknowledge areas of experience that
had been the subject of self-criticism
and rejection.

Moving the direction of fulfilling

potential or achieving an
Self-actualization integration of previously
conflicting parts of self.

Enlightenment Assisting the client to arrive

at a higher state of spiritual
awakening.
 Goals Description

Finding a solution to a specific problems

that the client had not been able to
Problem-Solving resolve alone. Acquiring a general
competence in problem solving.
Enabling the client to acquire ideas
and techniques with which to
Psychological education understand and control behavior.
Learning and mastering social
and interpersonal skills such as
Acquisition of Social Skills maintenance of eye contact,
turn taking in conversation,
assertive, or anger control.
 Goals Description

Cognitive change The modification or replacement of

irrational beliefs or mal adaptive
thought patterns associated with
self-destructive behavior.

Behavior change The modification or

replacement of maladaptive or
self-destructive patterns of
behavior.

Systematic change Introducing change into the

way in that social systems
operate.
 Goals Description
Empowerment Working on skills, awareness, and
knowledge that will enable to
client to take control of his or her
own life.
Restitution Helping the client to make amends
for previous destructive behavior.
Inspiring in the person a desire and
capacity to care for others and pass
Generality on knowledge and to contribute to
the collective good through
political engagement.