Objective Statements and Drug Dependency Program
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Consider this scenario. create a new drug treatment program.
The goal of this drug treatment program is to serve clients' needs and to educate clients about the harm that drugs cause.
The goal of this drug treatment program is to assist our clients in reducing drug dependency and eventually ending it toward living drug-free lives.
Which goal statement do you think is more appropriate? Explain why you think the statement is suitable. Also provide an explanation as to why the other statement is not suitable.
Do the four components mentioned in the book—a time frame, the targeted population, the anticipated result, and a criterion—suffice to create an objective statement? Why?
Consider the following objective statement for checking recidivism to crime:
"The program will prevent inmates from committing crime, as measured by arrest or revocation of parole, for at least three years after they have been released back into the community."
In the objective statement example above, consider that some new components are to be included toward creating a more appropriate objective statement. Recommend at least two additional components that can be included to create an objective statement and provide a rationale for your recommendations.
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The goal of this drug treatment program is to serve clients' needs and to educate clients about the harm that drugs cause.
The goal of this drug treatment program is to assist our clients in reducing drug dependency and eventually ending it toward living drug-free lives.
Which goal statement do you think is more appropriate? Explain why you think the statement is suitable. Also provide an explanation as to why the other statement is not suitable.
The second is ambiguous enough to catch attention, however it is not as good in meeting the criteria because it does not state any information about how it will end drug dependency.
The first is a better goal because it states that it has goals to help the people who are clients and to educate at the same time. Sometimes drug dependency programs tend to promise to do both, but get bogged down in one or ...
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