ABSTRACT
As avid consumers of the goal-setting research literature, we have on more than one occasion been rather critical of the evidence in support of its effectiveness. However, this book and the many fine chapters comprising it demonstrate unequivocally that goal setting is flourishing in rehabilitation and that strenuous efforts are being made by researchers and clinicians around the world to develop better theory and stronger evidence to underpin its practice. Indeed, one of the most striking features of the book is the sheer diversity evident across its chapters. This diversity extends to the purposes goal setting is used for, the conditions or disorders with which it is applied and the actual ways of goal setting with patients or clients. In closing this book, we wish to speculate a little about just where the future developments in rehabilitation goal setting might lie and to make some recommendations about how rehabilitation teams might think about their own goal-setting practice.
