ABSTRACT
The idea for writing a book on goal setting in rehabilitation grew out of our shared experiences as academics teaching postgraduate health professionals about goal setting in rehabilitation. Having worked as clinicians – one in physiotherapy (WL) and the other in clinical neuropsychology (RS) – we were both used to being part of interdisciplinary teams that did goal setting. However, our experience of having to actually teach health professionals about goal setting in a postgraduate programme (and one which prided itself on being evidence based nonetheless) led us to realize that goal setting, this emperor of rehabilitation, had no clothes.
