Documentation of Goals

I really enjoyed doing the "Goals that Need Improvement" worksheet in our foundations of OT class. It put what we were learning into a real life situation, which helps facilitate learning and memory of the material. It made me realize how important it is to be very clear and holistic when creating goals for clients. The goal must be appropriate and achievable, behaviorally-based, clear and understandable, functional, and measurable to be complete. One important part of this worksheet was making sure that each goal had a functional reasoning behind the action. It brings me back to the main lesson I've learned in foundations which is that the occupational therapy intervention must tie back in some way to a functional occupation. We can't just have our client pull our dimes in putty without explaining our purpose behind this action. Documenting is something that I'm very interested in learning more about because it is such a huge part of OT.