Goals of Counseling

• Assist in meeting or advancing the clients human growth and development including social, personal, emotional, cognitive and physical wellness.

  Development Goals
• Helps the client avoid some undesired outcome.

  Preventive Goals
• Enhance special skills and abilities.

  Enhancement Goals
• Assisting a client to overcome and treat an undesirable development.

  Remedial Goals
• Examining options, testing of skills, trying new and different activities, etc.

  Exploratory Goals
• Helps clients in recognizing that what they are doing, thinking, and feeling is fine.

  Reinforcement Goals
• Involves acquiring the basic foundation of learning and cognitive skills.

  Cognitive Goals
• Acquiring the basic understanding and habits for good health.

  Physiological Goals
• Aids in developing good social interaction skills, learning emotional control, and developing positive self–concept.

  Psychological Goals