Deck 3: Specifying Problems and Goals: Targets of Intervention

Question 1

Evaluation, like practice, starts "where the client is."

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A way of knowing that the problem does exist and of documenting when and where it occurs is called a

Answer 2

verifying source

Question 3

Targets may be vague, so long as they are meaningful and important to the client.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The specific predictions about how much success is expected in GAS are actually the goals for the client.

Question 5

The focus in thinking about countability of problems is on "what" and "when" issues rather than "why" issues.

Question 6

Goals should always be selected prior to the assessment so you can focus more specifically on the variables you want to assess.

Question 7

A target refers to the specific object of preventive or interventive services that is relevant in a given situation

Question 8

The text recommends the use of statistics to establish goals when you have a precise, specific criterion already established, e.g., a goal of losing 20 pounds in 6 weeks.

Question 9

Client outcome objectives include the practitioner's interventive activities that will help the client achieve his/her goals.

Question 10

There is no way to dereify an idea, once a client has it firmly in mind that he or she is suffering from some non-measurable problem.

Question 11

"The practitioner will provide systematic desensitization to decrease anxiety" is a clear, appropriate statement for the "who" segment of a goal.

Question 12

Goals refer to long-term outcomes of the service program, while objectives mean short- term or intermediate outcomes.