The purpose of this manual is to guide trainers through a program to improve the behavior management skills of nurses and nurse aides for dealing with problematic resident behavior related to disorientation, agitation, and depression. The A·B·Cs represents a nontheoretical, skills-oriented approach. It teaches staff to observe patterns of problematic behavior, identify triggers and consequences of those behaviors, and suggest changes in either or both.
This revised edition of Therapeutic Activity Intervention with the Elderly: Foundations and Practices (1996) has undergone significant changes from the original text. The book has been broadened beyond a narrow focus on therapeutic intervention to embrace principles and practices that are applicable to professional activity specialists who serve older adults in a wide range of settings.
Tedrick and Green address the body of knowledge which has emerged as activity programming becomes a major part of the provision of high-quality long-term care. While the focus is primarily upon long-term care and nursing homes, the authors provide a good overview of other geriatric settings in which activities can and do occur.
This book is designed to allow CNAs to understand the importance of their role in geriatric healthcare, and provide CNAs with a theoretical base so they can provide licensed nurses with improved information about the people for whom they provide care.
While assessment is sometimes viewed as merely paperwork in residential settings for the elderly, Perschbacher shows both why and how assessment can serve to make activity therapy a way of reengaging residents' interest in life by helping them realize dreams and aspirations. A must read for all those involved in recreation and other activity therapy with the elderly.
According to the authors, Beyond Baskets and Beads: Activities for Older Adults With Functional Impairments was born out of love. This book contains all the things the authors wish someone had told them when they started developing activities for older adults with functional impairments.
Beyond Bingo 2: More Innovative Programs for the New Senior will provide the reader with many helpful hints and program ideas for senior centers, nursing homes, assisted-living and retirement communities.
Written by award-winning recreation professionals with many years of experience with seniors, this book is valuable to those working with senior citizen programs in a variety of settings. A must read for those who work in recreation settings with older adults.
The number and efficiency of the neurons and the dendrites in the brain determine how well it functions, and some scientists now believe the brain is able to grow new dendrites and neurons. This compilation of tested brain-stimulating, challenging, novel-enriched Brain Fitness activities can benefit anyone — regardless of age or cognitive ability.
This text fills a gap in the therapeutic recreation literature by providing a starting point for discussion about the improvement of therapeutic recreation assessment. The challenges outlined — including selecting and implementing assessments; specialist expertise; and instrument validity, standardization, and availability — point to the continued need to improve the current state of the art of therapeutic recreation assessment.
This book represents a synergistic, collective effort to bring the newest information on outcomes, accountability, and evidence-based practice to the field of therapeutic recreation with a specific focus on the process of designing, delivering, and evaluating comprehensive and specific programs (as opposed to specific groups of clients). Collectively, these chapters are intended to upgrade and update the outcomes literature within the field and spur professionals into providing higher quality and more meaningful services to all clients.
This text provides empirically based theoretical perspectives on key concepts, timely topics, practical professional information, historical and philosophical perspectives from leaders in therapeutic recreation, and insight into leaders who helped advance the profession. Each chapter includes reading comprehension questions to direct readers, provide discussion topics for instructors, and help practitioners become more effective professionals.
Dementia Care Programming: An Identity-Focused Approach helps readers recognize that there is no single right answer to how we meet the needs of persons with dementia in professional care settings.
One of the greatest challenges facing human-service agencies today is how to meet the multifaceted needs of diverse clients and participants. This book is about that challenge. Diversity and the Recreation Profession brings together the voices of academic professionals to discuss diversity issues and approaches to solve them, and will act as a springboard for more comprehensive and meaningful discussions. This edition not only updates information and resources for effective organizational approaches to diversity, it also expands the creative concepts and consistent message of why diversity remains critical for organizational and community success. A supplemental PowerPoint presentation and an instructors' guide are available upon request.
This book brings scholars and professional leaders together to provide a unique and comprehensive discussion of the journey toward greater diversity and multiculturalism in recreation policies and programs. Diversity and the Recreation Profession: Organizational Perspectives is about the challenges human-service agencies encounter when trying to meet the needs of their diverse clients and participants.
This text is for therapeutic recreation personnel who will be seeking either a management role or who are new to a management position, and also speaks to therapeutic recreation managers who are looking for a practical desk reference and major resource to improve their performance. This text is written for the therapeutic recreation specialist responsible for managing direct therapeutic recreation service and the assignment and direction of therapeutic recreation staff who deliver services.
This book introduces 18 specific therapeutic recreation facilitation techniques, including relevant terms, theories, important implementation considerations, research studies, and a list of references and resources for further reading on each technique.
Functional Interdisciplinary-Transdisciplinary Therapy (FITT) is best described as therapy that targets a variety of rehabilitation goals to improve multiple physical and mental abilities. Rehabilitation professionals affected by managed care, Medicare payment reform, and staff consolidation should be able to use this manual with measurable success including RPT, RPTA, OTR/L, COTA, SLP, and CTRS. Providers may use FITT wherever it is important to deliver quality care while effectively managing time, cost, and therapeutic outcomes.
This important book shows therapeutic recreation and other activity professionals how to motivate clients to become involved in meaningful leisure activity.
Growing with Care is for staff, residents, volunteers and people of all abilities and ages who participate in the routine of tending to indoor plants and outdoor gardens in residential care homes or day communities. This easy-to-use reference will help readers develop a program that creates a sense of ownership, empowerment, and companionship for residents and clients in long-term care, assisted-living, or day community environments.
This course teaches methods for promoting and maintaining optimal health — physically, mentally and socially — with the goal of preserving an individual's personal control, dignity, and sense of pride while helping prevent common problems associated with memory loss. The goal of healthcare providers within this model is to assist those afflicted with memory loss to shape their own course and maintain the best possible quality of life through self-care and management of this chronic condition.
Hart, Primm, and Cranisky have developed a training series to foster a caring environment throughout senior centers, adult daycare centers, health clinics, and a variety of related services. Success of this approach does not fit neatly onto any graph or chart. Instead, it is reflected in the faces of participants, the dedication of staff, the commitment of volunteers, and the reactions of visitors.
Inclusion: Including People With Disabilities in Parks and Recreation Opportunities provides information and resources to professionals in parks and recreation and human services to facilitate inclusive recreation services. The manual presents clear strategies to include people with disabilities in community recreation opportunities.
This text encourages leisure services providers to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in their programs and will educate future and current leisure services professionals about attitude development and actions that promote positive attitudes about people who have experienced discrimination and segregation. The information provided in the text is supplemented by a CD-ROM of interactive learning activities.
Innovations is an excellent program that addresses the physical, cognitive, communication, emotional, and social needs of long-term care residents while improving or maintaining their functional abilities. In this valuable program, recreation provides treatment services to long-term care residents to improve or maintain their abilities. By doing this recreation therapists enhance the quality of life of individuals by helping them to maintain dignity, independence, and functional abilities while enhancing mood, self-esteem, and self-worth.
This book introduces the role of therapeutic recreation for disadvantaged populations from U.S. and Canadian perspectives. Often criticized and dismissed as being underdeveloped, the approaches and services in countries other than the United States can educate and can help those practicing in therapeutic recreation.
Well-written goals and objectives keep treatment on target and measurable, and assist with justification of services. This manual offers the basic techniques that students, interns and entry-level professionals need to gain confidence when developing and writing goals and objectives with their clients and patients.
The CD-ROM version of The Leisure Diagnostic Battery software has been updated and revised and contains installation options for Windows and Macintosh systems. The Users Manual (previously available as a separate purchase) is included on the CD in a PDF format.
Designed as a resource for practitioners and students, this comprehensive guide to the design and implementation of leisure education programs contains more than 100 activities and variations — from individual to large group, just-for-fun to competition, passive to active — for use in therapeutic recreation settings. It supplies a wide variety of both new and proven activities to meet the needs of clients and programs, and encourages users to create their own activities.
Leisure Education II: More Activities and Resources, Second Edition serves as a comprehensive resource guide designed to facilitate the implementation and improvement of leisure education services. Users are encouraged to modify and adapt activities in the manual as they see fit to meet the needs of the participants and the intent of the program. This manual will aid therapeutic recreation specialists in identifying and using appropriate leisure education activities to assist participants in overcoming leisure barriers and participating fully in leisure.
This third volume of this very popular Leisure Education series includes 108 new and innovative activities for clients of all ages. The introductory chapters highlight a conceptual framework that shows how the different elements of service provision, such as protocols, activity analysis, and quality improvement, are related. Leisure Education III keeps the reader abreast of the new demands on practice to make service delivery as easy as possible, yet meet the needs of participants.
The 112 new and innovative activities in this fourth volume in the very popular Leisure Education series are designed to meet the needs of those adolescents and adults with substance abuse and chemical dependency problems. Most of the activities have very specific content that deals with issues of substance abuse while some activities are aimed at the larger issues of leisure awareness, social skills, decision making, and leisure resources.
This significantly revised edition has been rewritten based upon substantial input from students, faculty, and professionals in the field — most notably by the expansion of the initial section of the book, from six to ten chapters. Attention has been given to the foundations and potential of leisure education, attitudes toward leisure and motivation for participation, constraints to participation and their management, leisure education promotion and facilitation, updated ways to teach and adapt leisure education programs, and multicultural issues.
This textbook provides information that is useful in developing a comprehensive leisure education program regardless of the people being served or the place where services are delivered. The most significant change to this edition is the expansion of the first section of the book, including a new chapter devoted to processing experiences. Recent information has been infused into the book since material relevant to leisure education continues to be produced.
Leisure Education Specific Programs provides practitioners and students with information about the systematic application of leisure education. This book contains a sample of ten specific programs to provide practitioners and students with a starting place for the development of comprehensive leisure education services.
The Lifestory Re-Play Circle is an active and interactive method to help elders, whether disabled or able, learn to value their lives. The activities offered aid the elderly in recognizing their life achievements and valuing their lifetime knowledge. Within a supportive group of peers, elders relate their memories and lifestories and re-create, or re-play, their shared experiences.
This delightful book and CD offer everything needed to conduct fun-filled music programs with older adults. A unique collection of action songs, sing-alongs, and music activities, The Melody Lingers On provides ideas for using music as a catalyst for group reminiscence. The music activities and the CD were designed to be used by activity directors with little or no musical background, by music specialists, or by older adults in their homes.
More Than a Game is a guide to providing the quality of life to which every client is entitled. These 37 innovative therapeutic activities and their variations are designed to suit the individual needs, current abilities, and former lifestyles of older adults in long-term care. The activities cover a wide array of cognitive levels and are appropriate for use in nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and adult day-care programs.
N.E.S.T. Approach: Dementia Practice Guidelines for Disturbing Behaviors compiles the research evidence on psychosocial interventions tested on older adults with dementia to date, and directs future research by pointing out what needs to be evaluated to improve our practice.
While crafts show off clients' skills and word games challenge their memories, many people in managed care especially love the opportunity to be in the spotlight by reading skits. Vetter writes skits that give all clients a chance to shine. Whether seated at a table reading the script, or if able, standing and performing the lines from memory, each performer is allowed time in the spotlight.
Written by top educators and practitioners in therapeutic recreation, this book provides an approach to quality assurance within therapeutic recreation settings. Practical and authoritative, this book will advance therapeutic recreation practice by detailing all phases of the quality assurance approach. A must read.
Writing a moral inventory or some sort of a "first-step prep" has been a key element in early recovery from addiction. This workbook approach allows the recovering addict to focus on what recovery really means — it addresses what one has done and is presently doing to sustain their recovery. The workbook is constructed in such a way as to offer tangible signs of recovery.
This book, by the authors of the best-selling Recreation Programming and Activities for Older Adults, is written for the recreation professional and anyone else who works with older adults in the field of recreation. It provides low-cost, client-intensive recreation programming ideas for older adults, regardless of the level at which they are able to function. The activities are designed for older adults who may or may not be physically frail, but who exhibit many signs of confusion, memory loss and/or disorientation.
The program plans in this manual are designed to increase direct patient/client care time by providing a selection of programs with a proven track record. All 46 plans were developed and initially implemented with older adults in a long-term care setting, including trivia, recipes, crafts, active games, and other expressions of creativity. This book makes planning a calendar of events a snap.
Here is a practical guide to providing recreation programs for older adults in a variety of settings, based upon the authors' extensive successful experience in working with older adults. The authors have rejected an "academic approach" in favor of a highly readable, step-by-step guide which is a pleasure to read. Of interest to all those who work with older adults in various settings.
This easy-to-use resource manual, developed to aid therapists in writing individual specific treatment goals, is divided into five major domains: Social, Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, and Leisure. The samples provided in this manual are designed to be used as guides to address a variety of behaviors and provide examples of measurable, observable, and obtainable goals from which therapists can create individualized goals for the specific needs of their patients.
This carefully edited book fills a gap in therapeutic recreation literature by addressing the range of research methods useful to those in therapeutic recreation, and theories about how and what one should learn to be effective as a professional. Malkin and Howe have produced a publication which "demystifies" the research process by providing state-of-the-art information about research terminology, design, implications and applications in the field.
Simple Expressions offers more than 200 ideas for creative and therapeutic art activities that can be adapted and changed to meet the needs and ability levels of almost all long-term care residents. Although this book is written with residents of long-term care facilities in mind, these activities are appropriate for adult day-care centers, assisted-living facilities, and continuing care residence centers as well. This book offers more than 200 therapeutic art activities suitable for a wide range of cognitive and physical levels.
Thie guide meets the needs of both individuals who seek to adopt a nontraditional and complementary health activity into their stressful lives and professionals in need of a practical textbook that will enable them to use tai chi as a therapeutic intervention. Tai chi is a safe, viable method of exercise shown to have significant positive results in four dimensions of human life: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. This text reviews general principles of wellness and physical conditioning and examines how tai chi can be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.
The content in this second edition is intended to provoke discussion and provide guidance, and portrays the rich tapestry of therapeutic recreation by illuminating common threads of past knowledge and future hopes. The cases and issues presented are based on actual situations. Forty new cases are featured in this edition, representing diverse situations and challenges.
This book explores a wide range of illnesses, conditions, and disorders that therapeutic recreation specialists (TRSs) commonly encounter as they provide professional services. While it is impossible to include every disorder to which TRSs may be exposed, the authors have drawn from their combined 40 years of professional experience to select the conditions and disorders most relevant to the therapeutic recreation profession. This book emphasizes the distinct nature of each impairment, with particular attention to details that bias the person as a good candidate for one intervention, but not another.
This text is the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of therapeutic recreation clinical practice yet. Clinical practice — a systematic and intentional process of facilitating change — is placed in the most current context of health promotion and disease prevention. Features include guided reading questions, numerous exhibits detailing TR practice in diverse settings and with clients across the age span, as well as thinking triggers throughout the chapters, which help students think about ideas and issues as they appear in the chapters.
This book integrates the theory and practice needed to upgrade your home's activities department and begin providing therapeutic recreation services. It explains leisure theory as it applies to a nursing home; the assessment process including the Farrington assessment; the planning process of activity adaptation and goal planning; and intervention and case study examples.
This text covers the traditional components of therapeutic recreation programming: assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. This is achieved through discussing the know-how (technical knowledge), know-why (theoretical knowledge), know-what (the purpose of therapeutic recreation), know-whether (moral judgments), and know-who (the clients/patients of therapeutic recreation) of therapeutic recreation. Ultimately, this text will enable students to exercise the most important and difficult of all competencies — intelligent action ethically applied to the needs and problems of a culturally diverse society.
This book explores the relationship between substance addiction and therapeutic recreation service in a detailed and practical manner. Faulkner provides specific courses of action by which therapeutic recreation professionals can deal with the addict and his or her family effectively and professionally. Her detailed, step-by-step approach is both understandable and comprehensive.
This primer is written to help therapeutic recreation specialists add a stress management component to their treatment programs. Whether the client has suffered a stroke; suffers from mental illness, developmental disabilities, or physical impairment; or has a substance abuse problem, stress management can be an important key to help empower clients to improve their quality of life. This manual will help therapeutic recreation specialists adapt and develop activities to provide a stress management component to their clients' treatment plans.
From journaling to poetry and everything in between, writing may result in significant emotional responses that the writer and facilitator should acknowledge. This little workbook is designed to encourage the user to express himself or herself creatively through a series of activities, guidelines, and suggestions. The activities presented in this book can be accomplished alone, with a friend, or with a trusted assistant to help to better understand the directions for each activity.
This book will take the reader on a journey toward self-discovery related to his or her own quality of life as well as the quality of life of the person or persons for whom care is provided. Wellness applies to both the reader and his or her loved one. For the reader, personal wellness is necessary for personal quality of life and for effective and balanced caregiving. If the reader can achieve a high level of self-care, a correspondingly higher level of care can be provided for the loved one.
Vetter wrote Trivia by the Dozen to encourage people in managed care to use word games as an interaction and reminiscence tool. This collection of questions, organized in topics fundamental to clients' lives during their most independent, productive years, can be a catalyst for vibrant dialogue. Songs, movies, clothing, household items, world events, and other themes help stimulate memories.
