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The Use of Goal-Planning in a Group Home for Mentally Handicapped Adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Helen James
Helen James
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KIDS Centre, London
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A 1-year training programme carried out in a group home for mentally handicapped adults is described. A system of goal-planning was used, so that individual goals could be regularly set for clients and their progress monitored. Choice of goals was governed by an attempt to encourage clients to become more independent and more involved with the local community. The success of the training programme is described and the usefulness of the goal-planning procedure is discussed. Implications for residential care services are also briefly considered.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 244 - 255
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1981

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