CORE Blimey! Existential Therapy Scores GOALS!

Abstract

This paper articulates an existential-phenomenological attitude to short- term work in public sector secondary care mental health services, and expresses how therapists and clients address the notion of measurable change through the setting of goals. We critically evaluate how to address the problem of measurement from an existential-phenomenological psychological therapy perspective. The philosophical informants of such approach to psychological therapy are elucidated and an analysis of client-directed goal-oriented change concludes the value of this approach.