a process approach for establishing counseling goals and outcomes

The need for specifying client expectations and goals in counseling and then determining whether those needs were fulfilled led to the author's developing an approach that measures client perceptions of changes on desired personal characteristics. This technique, called the Counseling Outcome Inventory, focuses on the individual's unique values and goals. It is completed by the counselor and client conjointly and provides a way to elicit and deal with a client's self‐perceptions during the counseling session. The author provides a description of the rationale for and the procedure involved in using the Counseling Outcome Inventory.