Having explicit goals with a young person is entirely consistent with the AMBIT approach. It is linked to encouraging focus on both the client and the practitioner's intentionality. The most common goal based measure used in the UK is the one adopted by the CAMHS Outcomes research Consortium (CORC).

AMBIT and GBO's

This is also strongly in keeping with the AMBIT approach to developing and "attuning" plans about the work, described in Active Planning and especially in relationship to the ideas about Taking Aim.

See also Advice on setting Treatment Aims and Goals

AIM and GBO's

The AIM Form (AMBIT Adolescent Integrative Measure) the 40 – item multi-domain assessment adapted from the validated Hampstead Child Adaptation Measure and embedded in the AMBIT manual offers a version of "GBO's" (Goals based outcomes). In the AIM, up to 6 items can be identified as “Key Problems”, which can form key targets or treatment goals of a treatment Care Plan. Thus, insofar as such treatment goals cannot be created "out of thin air" by the clinician and client, post-treatment measurement of these “Key problems” acts as a "partially-constrained" version of “Goals-Based Outcome Measures”

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Forms and guidance for the CORC goals-based measures can be easily downloaded from the CORC website here.

See also p.74 of the UK's Child IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) document: Duncan Law and the IAPT CO-OP Group (2012). Using Service User Feedback & Outcome Tools (this document is embedded in this page, below: