This text containing 24 chapters examines many current issues in the contemporary study of leisure. It features 33 debates concerning key issues around which leisure studies will be focused as we enter the 21st century.
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.
Peggy Powers, a veteran "chef" in the recreation field, takes you through a wide variety of activity "recipes" for a satisfying gourmet meal, based on programming for the individual, the environment, and the developmental needs of the participant. Effective leadership facilitates when it is best to "add the ingredients" to "stir" up the group or to let the group "simmer."
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.
This revised edition of Adventure Education (1991) brings together the current ideas of many practitioners of adventure programming to reveal the extent of the literature in the field, providing insight into every aspect of this ongoing movement. Change for society and communities is the altruistic endpoint sought by adventure programs through adventurous activities such as outdoor pursuits, initiative activities, and ropes or challenge courses which are all discussed in this text.
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.
This book is an invaluable tool for planners of social recreation programs. If one has a need for great programs, yet has little time to develop them, Moore has designed this straightforward book to provide ready-to-go plans for children, adults or mixed groups for both high-energy and more sedate participation.
Although many gains have been made in understanding women's leisure, much remains to be learned. This social-psychological analysis of women and their leisure from feminist perspectives provides information about women and the issues that surround both the gains and gaps associated with the construct we commonly call leisure.
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.
The goals of this book are threefold. The first objective is to lay out a series of "local maps," at a fine scale, of what we know about specific aspects of constraints to leisure after 25 years of attention. The second purpose is to integrate this knowledge by moving sufficiently far back from the detail to provide a sort of continental-scale view, perhaps a satellite image, of the constraints to leisure "topography." The third goal is to use these maps to chart journeys in the future.
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.
Dimensions of Choice (Second Edition) is an introductory text on the philosophy, theory, methods, and techniques applied to interpretive research and qualitative approaches in parks, recreation, tourism, sport, and leisure (PRTSL). This book contains many of the basic (but rethought) premises of the first edition and is expanded to include new issues such as reflexivity, computer aids, linking and mixed methods, evaluating research reports, and other emerging forms of data collection, analysis, and data presentations.
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.
Designed for undergraduates and practitioners who wish to apply evaluation research to their efforts, this book will enable the reader to practice and apply evaluation research concepts and techniques. This new edition includes more outcome-based evaluation, the use of the Internet for data collection, the relationship between research and evaluation, and updated information about computer packages for analysis of qualitative and quantitative data.
Designed to provide a different day-long program for each of the 366 days of the year (yes, leap year is included), Everything From A to Y can also be used as a unique indexed resource for program ideas in adult care settings. The programs can be modified and adapted to fit the abilities of any particular group.
This book traces the evolution in thought concerning leisure and its role in society from its birth in ancient Athens through the Industrial Revolution to modern society. An ideal textbook for a philosophy of recreation and leisure course.
This book represents a compilation of what is known about the marketing of recreation and leisure experiences. Intended for both beginner and more advanced marketers, Experience Marketing: Strategies for the New Millennium engages the reader in a process of discovery to determine a preferred course for improved marketing approaches in diverse settings.
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.
File o' Fun is a set of reference cards for over 200 activities plus a Leadership Booklet to assist recreation leaders during the planning and implementation of occasions where people get together for fun and fellowship. This collection is appropriate not only for leadership training programs at the college level but also for all types of professional and nonprofessional recreation settings found within groups such as scouting, 4-H, senior centers, care centers, and where leaders are called upon to design activity programs for parties, holidays, and/or special events.
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.
The authors have combined their decades of experience leading workshops and events for the widest range of groups and settings to produce a handbook of leadership through playful interaction. More than a theoretical guide, The Game and Play Leader's Handbook is a practical guide to how leaders can get fun to happen with real people in real situations.
This book concentrates not only on the planning and leadership of activities but also contains a "Game Finder" which indexes games by group size, level of effort, setting, amount of time needed, and special preparation (if any). Invaluable for the activity leader in any setting.
This important book shows therapeutic recreation and other activity professionals how to motivate clients to become involved in meaningful leisure activity.
The 500-plus activities in Group Games and Activity Leadership are intended to be used as a reference or guide in planning larger group activities. Some of the activities are new. Others have been played in neighborhoods and on playgrounds when we were children and in parks by our parents and grandparents.
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.
A well-organized children's activity area will make a dramatic impact on any event — large or small. Written by a recreation professional with over a dozen years of experience in coordinating children's activities, this book covers everything from planning and setup to implementation to preparing for the next event.
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 new edition presents a substantially revised and updated guide to internship preparations, including resumes, cover letters, electronic and traditional print approaches, and interview techniques and tips. This valuable resource also includes a comprehensive list of internship-related and job-related websites as well as exercises and questions.
Whether one is just starting out or a seasoned professional, Interpretation of Cultural and Natural Resources, Second Edition will provide a strong start or refresher for understanding the job of interpretation. This text provides comprehensive knowledge of the interpretive profession and is filled with practical information, useful applications and examples of how interpreters do their work.
The 169 activities in this resource are meant to help professionals serving at-risk youth establish active treatment goals for the youth and move them toward more positive behaviors. The activities and goals are written in a format that staff — from volunteers and childcare workers to activity staff and professional therapeutic recreation specialists — can use when implementing intervention activities for at-risk youth.
Outdoor recreation can be extremely beneficial — more than most people recognize. This book introduces the fundamental concepts, skills, and essentials of the body of knowledge needed to become an effective outdoor recreation professional and provider in a practical way. It introduces what outdoor recreation is, how to provide opportunities for it, and how to manage it professionally.
This text focuses on the growing and changing meanings of recreation and leisure services in communities. Underlying any recreation service is the mandate to address the meanings of leisure and to examine inclusion and social justice as vital components of the quality of life. This book addresses all sectors of this field, including public, not-for-profit, and private commercial entities.
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.
Anyone responsible for delivering safe, high-quality outdoor pursuits experiences will find this book useful. The material is presented from a practical perspective, with an emphasis on managing activity risks, minimizing exposure to legal liability, and defining current professional outdoor leadership standards and practices.
Leadership is one of the keystones of successful parks, recreation, and leisure services agencies, organizations, and programs. How we deal with people, how we interact with fellow staff, supervisors, participants, and the general public all make an incredible statement about who we are and what our profession is about. This book is designed to help students of leadership begin (or renew) their personal journey toward leadership.
Given the accelerating change in our world, it seems leisure will be changed for those in both the modern and developing worlds. This book presents 66 discussion topics with Issue Questions and Implications for Leisure to allow the readers to become aware of and investigate trends that could influence leisure and leisure services, and anticipate potential impacts these trends and issues may have.
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 premise of this book is simple: to explore leisure within Canadian society. The goals of this book are to expose the reader to the many roles played by leisure and the ways in which Canadians take part, and to explore what this means for leisure providers. As you will see, leisure is a complex and far-reaching phenomenon.
Leisure in Your Life: New Perspectives takes a fresh approach to understanding leisure through the use of dozens of brief statements from diverse people commenting on some aspect of leisure in their lives. This device, combined with professionally designed PowerPoint presentations for each chapter, adds new perspectives to the approach taken by the previous editions of this best-selling book.
In this edited volume, Edgar L. Jackson and Thomas L. Burton have attempted no less than an assessment of what is known about recreation and leisure at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book represents the only comprehensive statement of what is known about recreation and leisure as the twenty-first century begins, with its heightened potential to create a world in which such knowledge is critical to human well-being.
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 book is the culmination of a 20-year inquiry into the nature and meaning of academic life. An enduring passion for academic life has sustained all the authors. While some have migrated into administration, others have remained teaching professors and scholars. This book should be read by every graduate student who wants to follow in their footsteps.
Managing to Optimize the Beneficial Outcomes of Recreation focuses on explaining what Outcomes-Focused Management (OFM) is, why it should be applied more widely to the management of recreation and related amenity resources and programs that are managed by public agencies, as well as how such management can and should be done. This text provides detailed instructions on how to implement OFM and describes successful real-world applications of OFM in policy development and management by different park and recreation agencies.
This textbook covers the many things to consider, the many issues to face, and shows how marketing decision-making can be less frightening and risky than a roller-coaster ride, yet features all the thrills and enjoyment associated with marketing in leisure and tourism.
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.
These case studies provide cutting-edge information about innovative programs, facilities and management practices that are setting the pace in municipal recreation and park services. From successful "contracting out" to creative partnerships to new ways to reach at-risk youth, this new book provides up-to-the-minute information about where municipal recreation and park services are headed and how to get there.
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.
The overall purpose of this book is to tell fully what we know about the range of values Americans hold toward the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) in a factual, wide-ranging, and science-based way. A multidisciplinary team of authors and researchers clarify the meaning of different types of Wilderness values and present replicable, science-based evidence of these values in this volume. This is "must reading" for those who have power over the future of the NWPS as well as all who seek to influence those who have this power. It is also appropriate for teachers, students, and other inquisitive people involved in formal or informal learning and research programs about Wilderness.
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.
This provocative, timely text advocates an expanded ethic oriented towards ecosystem sustainability and focuses on the role of nature in sustaining the human spirit and presents a balanced, in-depth perspective on the difficult topic of hard-to-define values. The writers' perspectives encompass the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, and economic well-being of people and communities, emphasizing the sameness of humans and land, and it lays the groundwork for an understanding of, and a need for, an expanded land management ethic.
The Organizational Basis of Leisure Participation shows that studying the social organization of leisure can be wonderfully fruitful, and lead to numerous insights about why people participate in leisure, in general, and certain leisure activities, in particular. This book challenges researchers and students alike to consider further study of the influence and structure of organizations as a basis for leisure participation, especially those studying or planning research in the fields of leisure, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, disability studies, and volunteer and citizen participation.
Outdoor Recreation for 21st Century America will provide recreation planners, public land managers, academicians, media, students, industry, and others interested in outdoor recreation with a resource describing trends and contemporary Americans' participation in outdoor recreation. This book is a professional information resource to be used in planning, decision making, marketing, and documentation. While this book was designed for a wide audience, it provides data broken out to suit many specific interests and needs as well.
Jubenville and Twight address a broad spectrum of issues from turf management to interpretive services, incorporating both current management theory and examples from numerous agencies with photographs and illustrations. A practical guide for both student and professional.
Award-winning park scientist, administrator, and lecturer, Will LaPage challenges us in Parks for Life to reconsider the role of our public parklands in the twenty-first century. Can our parks do far more than we have traditionally expected of them? Can they help build respect for life; expand our appreciation of our vital interconnections; contribute to peace and justice; improve the health of our bodies and communities; and assist in reducing problems of homelessness, crime, and poverty? The answer is a resounding yes — if we are willing to revise park management's paradigms.
The Pivotal Role of Leisure Education weaves together the main strands of a manifesto on leisure education — conceived of broadly as counselling, volunteering, and instruction — as a main way to enhance the lives of people who feel their leisure lifestyle is inadequate or even nonexistent. When it comes to improving the human condition, leisure education has a pivotal role to play in enriching people's lives.
The activities in this book promote cooperative and constructive forms of leisure utilizing supportive and positive relationships among participants. Activities are categorized into four basic areas: instruction, demonstration/entertainment, competition, or free play. These categories allow the leader to set up a program of various activities that help develop a memorable, positive experience among the groups with whom they work.
Planning for Recreation and Parks Facilities: Predesign Process, Principles, and Strategies is divided into six sections that systematically progress through the planning process from basic principles to goal setting, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
Planning Parks for People has been extensively upgraded, revised and greatly expanded from its original 1987 edition. This second edition will continue to enlighten and inform the readers about what works and what doesn't in the design of today's parks. With more than 600 photographs and illustrations as well as a "how-to" approach, this text offers examples of the good and the bad in park design, as well as axioms, guidelines, and specific illustrations of what to do and what not to do.
Meeting the needs of customers through effective recreation programs is imperative for leisure service organizations to survive and prosper in the 21st century. The servant leadership approach — based on the premise that all recreation providers serve their customers through programs — simultaneously enhances the personal growth of individuals and improves the quality and caring of our many institutions through a combination of teamwork and community, personal involvement in decision making, and ethical and caring behavior. This book provides both cutting-edge concepts and practical knowledge for successful, professional programming in parks, recreation, and leisure services.
Programming for Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Services: A Servant Leadership Approach (Third Edition) retains its user-friendly approach and servant leadership foundation. It includes updated material in all chapters, and additional material about social entrepreneurship and strategic planning. In addition, the theory chapter has been reorganized with theory to practice boxes throughout the book, programmer profiles have also been added to each chapter, to introduce students to recreation programmer in a variety of positions.
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 title continues the tradition of examining how change reshapes recreation and leisure in our society, and the challenges to recreation, park, and leisure services which accompany such changes. Ideal for an issues or senior seminar course, this book also challenges recreation, park, and leisure service professionals to rethink what they are about. This book has found a unique place in leisure literature.
The goal of this book is to facilitate increased knowledge about who youth are, why they do what they do, and how to facilitate their development through recreation. The authors hope to challenge and inspire readers so that they undertake efforts to make a difference in youths' lives through recreation. Readers will be confronted with new perspectives, and hopefully will discuss and debate these and other issues.
The approach to decision making throughout this edition of Recreation Economic Decisions is that of the decision maker who considers the benefits and costs of alternative recreation activities and programs, then chooses the most beneficial one possible at the lowest possible cost. This text — written for college students who are preparing to become managers of parks and recreation areas, forests, wildlife, and related natural resources — emphasizes all practical aspects of benefits and costs in recreation resource analysis.
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.
A Social Psychology of Leisure is written to serve as a textbook for undergraduate students taking a course in the psychological and social aspects of leisure and recreation. This text presents material simply, yet without oversimplifying, and illustrates basic principles with enthusiasm for the field. No previous course in general social psychology is required with this text.
Special events and festivals have become common, important features in communities all over the world. Special Events and Festivals will assist seasoned event planners, new staff members in event management companies, board members from nonprofit agencies, and anyone else with the responsibility of planning a special event or festival. The planning steps presented in this manual are applicable to all types of events from large, multiday festivals to small, one-day community activities.
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.
Initiatives are activities that require group effort to accomplish tasks. Initiatives can serve the dual purpose of providing engaging, enjoyable experiences while promoting both individual and collective growth and development. This book presents a frame of reference for and the content and process of utilizing initiatives.
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.
Tourism and Society approaches the subject of tourism primarily from the perspectives of sociology and social and cultural anthropology, although it does address issues and problems effecting tourism which are economic, geographical, and political as well. In reviewing, synthesizing, and commenting on the tourism literature of the past 40 years, Robert Wyllie has struck a balance between critical and defensive viewpoints, encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions on the issues.
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.
