Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation

Strategies used in the pursuit of achievability during goal setting in rehabilitation.

We used conversation analysis of six audio- and video-recorded goal-setting meetings that were attended by patients and their respective treating team to explore and describe the interaction of participants during interdisciplinary goal setting, and to identify the strategies used to agree on goals. The health care professionals involved in the six sessions included four physiotherapists, four ...

Goal setting and functional outcomes in rehabilitation.

Making Goal Pursuit Effective: Expectancy-Dependent Goal Setting and Planned Goal Striving

Setting Goals 129 Effective Goal Setting: The Strategy of Mental Contrasting 129 Empirical Evidence 130 Mechanisms of Mental Contrasting 132 Summary 135 Implementing Set Goals 135 The Distinction Between Goal Intentions and Implementation Intentions 135 Implementation Intentions and Solving Problems of Goal Striving 136 Summary 139 An Intervention to Facilitate Effective Goal Pursuit: Combining...

Goal setting in cardiac rehabilitation: implications for clinical practice.

BACKGROUND Effective goal setting is a vital component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to investigate the types of goals set by patients attending a CR program in a tertiary teaching hospital and the compatibility of the goals set with the patient's risk factor profile. METHODS A descriptive, cross sectional, retrospective audit of the me...

Goal Setting , Goal Striving , and Goal Attainment : Entrepreneurs ’ Motivation

from the proposal: “Although goal striving is important in people’s lives, little research has examined goal striving. In the motivation literature focus has been on goal setting and, to a much lesser degree, goal attainment. No published study has examined entrepreneurs’ goal striving, which constitutes the purpose of the study. A sample of entrepreneurs will provide the data for the study. Th...