The Queensland Rehabilitation Clinical Network goal-setting guidelines and resources have been developed to use with rehabilitation consumers. The guideline helps clinicians and teams to incorporate person-centred goal-setting into their practice and rehabilitation service delivery.
Clinical training
New eLearning course - Goal-setting in rehabilitation
All clinicians working in rehabilitation settings are encouraged to take the Goal-setting in Rehabilitation eLearning course to improve their knowledge and skills in goal-setting within an evidence-informed framework that supports consumer participation. This is a self-paced, four-module course with completion certificates. Consumers may also benefit by increasing their understanding of the goal-setting process.
Queensland Health - Link for Goal-setting in rehabilitation online course (for Queensland Health staff, recommended to use the Edge browser. Chrome, Firefox and Safari are also compatible)
External to Queensland Health - the Goal-setting in rehabilitation course is available via the iLearn external course catalogue. To register for an iLearn account click here to find out how.
Please note: Internet Explorer is not compatible with iLearn. It is recommended to use the Edge browser. Chrome, Firefox and Safari are also compatible.
Clinician guidelines
Resources for your rehabilitation consumers
Editable goal-setting workbook for consumers
- Consumer held goal-setting workbook template (PDF, 1MB)
- Instructions for editing goal-setting workbook (PDF, 616KB)
- Example - Goal setting workbook (PDF, 5.8MB)
Step 2 and 3 template options for page 14 and 15 of workbook
Goal-setting and action planning:
- Template 1: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 27KB)
- Template 1: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 68KB)
- Template 2: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 25KB)
- Template 2: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 163KB)
- Template 3: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 25KB)
- Template 3: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 30KB)
- Template 4: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 24KB)
- Template 4: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 19KB)
- Template 5: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 23KB)
- Template 5: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 23KB)
- Template 6: Step 2 – Agree on specific goals (PDF, 27KB)
- Template 6: Step 3 – Plan some actions (PDF, 68KB)
Extra sheets - Step 2 and 3 templates for goal-setting and action planning
- Template 1: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 70KB)
- Template 2: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 170KB)
- Template 3: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 31KB)
- Template 4: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 25KB)
- Template 5: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 24KB)
- Template 6: Step 2 and 3 (PDF, 69KB)
Goal-setting prompt sheets
- Goal area identification (PDF, 16KB)
- Template 1: Step 1 – What is a normal day for you (PDF, 65KB)
- Template 2: Step 1 – What is a normal week for you (PDF, 22KB)
- Template 3: Step 1 – Where I am now, where I want to get to (PDF, 27KB)
Goal boards
- A4 Editable goal board (DOCX, 258KB)
- A3 Editable goal board (DOCX, 160KB)
Follow-up template
- Follow-up template (PDF, 44KB)
Aphasia friendly goal-setting and action planning resources
- Aphasia friendly picture board – editable (PDF, 46KB)
- Example aphasia friendly board (PDF, 859KB)
- Instructions for developing an aphasia friendly picture board (PDF, 564KB)
- Talking Mats Australia
- Talking Mats training
- Talking Mats online training course
Rehabilitation service promotion
- Rehabilitation service flyer - editable (PDF, 149KB)
- Example flyer (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Instructions for developing a rehabilitation service flyer (PDF, 624KB)