Both Play and Leisure are vital components of a child's life as a range of stimulating play and leisure opportunities will support the physical emotional sensory and spiritual and intellectual growth of the child. It helps them to form and sustain relationships and also improves communication, educational development and achievement.…
Leisure’s roles are not static, but rather they change and evolve with the circumstances in which we find ourselves.…
Leisure’s roles are not static, but rather they change and evolve with the circumstances in which we find ourselves.…
Q. Critically evaluate the use of: The Leisure Ability Model and the Health Promotion/Protection Model.…
There are many sociocultural factors that influence the type of recreational activities we do, when we do it and how often we do it. The sociocultural factor that is most dominant in influencing my leisure and recreation is the environmental factor. Environmental factors that influence my leisure include the locality or area that I live in, the weather/climate, and also the family culture I was raised in. These factors facilitate the leisure activities I am able to do and constrain certain activities as well. The economic factor also has some influence on my leisure and recreation. I find interest in many recreational activities because it allows me to socialize and take apart of society.…
The first key word that appears in the textbook about definition of therapeutic recreation is purposeful. To achieve every client or participants’ goals the Therapeutic recreation professionals should always think about the purpose of any plans they are using to accomplish those goals. Utilization and enhancement are another two key words in the definition of TR. Utilization includes actively engaging leisure interests, choices, abilities, and behavior to maintain or improve ability levels in both leisure and nonleisure domains. Enhancement focuses on rebuilding lost leisure skills, identifying new interests, learning new skills, or finding alternative ways to perform skills. And finally, Leisure is the most important word in the definition.…
NeuroRestorative has enhanced my knowledge in Therapeutic Recreation. Therapeutic Recreation service is a health-oriented field. It involves the provision of recreation programs designed to improve or maintain the physical, emotional, mental, and social functioning of persons with disabilities. It uses treatment, leisure education, and recreational services to promote a satisfying leisure lifestyle among persons with acute and chronic impairments. This internship has been very affective while understanding the Leisure Motivation Scale, SOAP notes, and writing goals and objectives for participants and…
The focal point of this paper is happiness and the degree to which it is connected with the content of people’s leisure lifestyles. Therefore, to examine this subject thoroughly, an insight into some of the psychological and physiological theories will be presented.…
Individuals choose their leisure activities in a relationship with their needs. Leisure also has the role to reduce mental stress and induce a stage of relaxation. Stress can be reduced by a series of relaxing activities, which will in the end disconnect individual from the mental obstacles they have to face. People design their leisure time as to feel better and gain forces to continue working. Meeting friends, reading a good book, attend cultural events; all these activities reduce the daily stress we all…
2 Describes a personal experience but does not identify as neither negative nor positive nor links to cross cultural communication. 2 Shows limited understanding of Western and Chinese meanings of leisure…
recreationists can respond to unwanted situations by substituting one place for another, by altering their use patterns, and by maintaining…
Reflecting back upon my table of personal leisure inventory, I can see that I am currently engaged in a lot of physical, health and social leisure activities. Working out at the gym, playing basketball, and dancing are all integral parts of my life and the physical and health benefits I get from them are amazing. All my leisure activities are social benefits as well as each activity I have listed requires me to be social. A couple of my activities also give me cultural benefits as well. Hanging out with friends is a great cultural benefit because depending on which friends you are with you adapt to the culture surrounding them. Or in my case I have a sense of different culture when I am with my friends. Also,…
Some researchers, like Shaw, Caldwell, Kivel and Kleiber, reject that leisure participation always affords positive influence as some researches indicated or as we expected. From considering the issues about gender and/or sexual identity, “we know ourselves not only by what we do, but also by what we choose not to do”1. In their studies, therefore, the importance that we expect leisure participation can benefit to participants will be reduced.…
- Leisure is a key aspect to culture; central to our everyday life (traditions) and creation of different lifestyles (practices); leisure practices are a ‘shaper of culture’ and are also ‘shaped by…
The adults that attend the programs set up by these adult care centres usually have…