How specific do counseling goals need to be?
Specific enough that you and a supervisor would agree on whether progress had been made. Name the observable change, the indicator and a timeframe. Improve coping is not assessable; the version with a behavior and a measure is.
This comes up on MA Counseling Coursework, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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