{"id":15889,"date":"2019-06-10T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:03:12","slug":"therapist-sped-teacher-unable-to-write-measurable-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/therapist-sped-teacher-unable-to-write-measurable-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals:  THERAPIST, SPED TEACHER UNABLE TO WRITE MEASURABLE GOALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Goals%3A%20%20THERAPIST%2C%20SPED%20TEACHER%20UNABLE%20TO%20WRITE%20MEASURABLE%20GOALS\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Dena:&nbsp; My daughter is a senior in high school withdepression, anxiety, Asperger&#8217;s, and trichotillomania. Her case manager, Special Ed Teacher, cannot write IEP Goals to save her life! I have been writing the IEP Goals and re-writing them for 13 years because only 4 teachers have been capable of writing SMART goals in all these years. I am very concerned that the Special Ed Teachers are not learning this skill in their credential programs.&nbsp; I refused to sign the latest IEP because the goals were vague and meaningless or just plain out-dated (one was never used, but still included on the form).<\/p>\n<p>The mental health goal that the therapist wrote is vague and doesn&#8217;t state what new coping strategies she is teaching my daughter to use to cope with her anxiety and OCD symptoms. The evidence-based treatment should be CBT, with measurable goals for how my daughter will improve her ability to cope with stress. Without a measurable goal, the therapist just talks with my daughter casually for 30 minutes 1x\/a week and that&#8217;s considered fine by them, but not for me. Therapy needs to be purpose-driven and have stated goals to be effective. As you can see, I&#8217;m beyond frustrated! Your thoughts, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dena:&nbsp; My daughter is a senior in high school withdepression, anxiety, Asperger&#8217;s, and trichotillomania. Her case manager, Special Ed Teacher, cannot write IEP Goals to save her life! I have <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/therapist-sped-teacher-unable-to-write-measurable-goals\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1357],"class_list":["post-15889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-g"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24517,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions\/24517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}