2.1 Influence of team type on goal setting

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The type of team influences the types of goals that are set.

In traditional goal setting in a multidisciplinary team each clinician wrote specific goals that they would work on with the person. That often meant that the person was working on many goals, steps and actions that were not well integrated across their rehabilitation program (figure 2).1

Goals 1-5 with a specific therapist - occupational therapist, social worker, physiotherapist, psychologist, speech pathologist - linked to each
Figure 2: Traditional clinician-specific treatment planning

The interdisciplinary team type (figure 3) starts with the person's goals, and then identifies which clinicians can help them achieve that goal. Several clinicians may be working on the same goal.

Goals 1-5 with varying numbers of different specialists linked to each.
Figure 3: Person's goals determine clinician involvement

In the transdisciplinary model (figure 4), one clinician takes carriage of delivering the interventions required to achieve the person’s goals. Where a specific specialty is required, this may be brokered for that goal.

Person and clinician is linked to all five goals. A specialist is linked to goal 5.
Figure 4: Transdisciplinary model with a primary clinician

References

  1. Badge H, Weekes M, Jones B, et al. Goal training workbooks 2012-2013. Sydney: ACI; 2012.
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