Assignment task: Measure of Success
Purpose of Assignment: This reviews the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Bound) goals model and challenges students to apply knowledge by creating SMART goal scenarios and responses.
Transferable skill: Digital Fluency
Effectively employing and understanding digital tools to express ideas in appropriate contexts. In the human services field, digital fluency manifests through mastery of apps and software that can help a worker organize data, locates services and track client progress.
Instructions:
You now have an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge of the SMART goals model. Respond to the following scenarios and include the following:
1. Discuss a goal for each scenario.
2. Using each part of the S.M.A.R.T goal acronym explain how the goals established for the client fit the SMART model.
Scenario A: Sally is ten years old and has outbursts at school that include verbal aggression towards teachers and the destruction of physical property. This behavior occurs daily.
Scenario B: Marion is 50 years old and is socially isolated. She does not work and rarely interacts with other people. She feels lonely.
Scenario C: David is 40 years old and recently divorced. Three weeks ago, he was laid off from his job of ten years. He is looking for work and struggling financially.