Exam 2 Flashcards
Which of the following is a skill required for leisure service managers?
Accounting
Making a ________ changes the dynamic of a leisure service business.
Profit
The approach where the focus is on the customer is called the ____.
Marketing approach
Approximately how many nonprofit organizations exist in the United States?
1.8 million
The gross domestic national product is used to measure HOW MUCH MONEY GOVERNMENT SPENDS IN TOTAL.
False - Sum of total goods and services
A constitutional monarchy is the form of governments used in Canada with allegiance to the Queen of England.
True
The United States is different from Canada because the United States operates under a constitutional republic.
True
The private sector includes local governments managed by private individuals.
True
The movement to create parks and protect areas in the 1880s was driven by society’s need to reconnect with nature after having been removed from it because of ________ and _________.
Industrialization and technological advances
The oldest trail in Canada is the ________ Trail in southern Ontario.
Bruce
The most notable city park built between 1850 and 1930 (the period in which early American cities began to build parks and playgrounds) was?
Central Park
The first national park in the world was?
Yellowstone
All of the following are or have been areas of concern for parks, except:
Over popularization
In Canada the provincial governments have a formal role in the creation or management of long-distance biking trails.
False
Olmsted believed that parks could serve as meeting grounds for people of various backgrounds and classes.
True
Fleming and Adams were central figures in the creation of Canada’s first national park in 1885, now known as Banff National Park
False - Fleming and Macdonald
The Canadian provincial parks suffered the massive budget cuts that the American state parks suffered in the same period.
False
Which of the following is NOT one of the changes faced by many public agencies in recent years?
Increase in employees
What type of education includes after-school and evening classes and activities and programs at the local school?
Community education
What is the practice of putting together people of all ages, races, and abilities in the same recreation programs?
Inclusion
Managers must have three types of skills. Which is not one of them?
Physical skills allow for long hours of work.
Special recreation is best characterized by which of the following statements?
It takes place in a public community setting and is offered to all types of people, those with disabilities and those without, for the purpose of creating inclusive recreation.
What is the name of the process in which people move from large hospital or institutional settings back to their home communities?
Deinstitutionalization
Public recreation is still considered a staple for a high quality of life in a community.
False
Public recreation is focused on traditional cultural values that stress the quality of the leisure experiences over profit and, in some cases, the customer.
True
The first director of the Provincial Recreation Program in British Columbia was Ian Eisenhardt, a Vancouver Parks Board staff meme we who had been trained in Denmark.
True
The backbone of the public recreation systems in Canada is the local recreation leisure service provider.
True
Identifying Nonprofit Organizations
Red Cross
Nanus and Dobbs (1999) identified three primary sectors of society. What are they?
Economic, political and social
The four major subcategories of nonprofits in the United States are?
Charities, foundations, social welfare organizations, and professional and trade associations
Which of the following is not a religious and faith-based organization?
CFO
Canada has a central registry for nonprofits that register with Revenue Canada.
False
One way in which our sense of belonging and identification of feelings are attached to nonprofit organizations is through acts of philanthropy
True
National Recreation and Park Association is the national voice for the parks and recreation field.
True
American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) is the largest membership organization representing the interests and needs of health care providers who use recreational therapy to improve the functioning of people with illness or disabling conditions.
True
The primary difference between an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur
Entrepreneur - provides new recreation related services and products through new businesses that use trends and changes in recreational habits
Intrapreneur - provides new recreation related services and products within an organization
A specialized RET certificate
Recreation, event and tourism
Technology-dependent RET businesses, as described in the chapter, are characterized by
Attraction, support, and facilitation
Incentives for RET businesses to become more sustainable include:
Significant portion of clients seek out green or Eco-friendly businesses
Government land management agencies require companies to report their environmental performance
Higher profitability when providing similar services
Which of the following is not a step in the therapeutic recreation process?
Discharge planning
A common component of all definitions of therapeutic recreation is
Quality of life
The process of determining a person’s interests and needs is know as
Assessment
The principles of autonomy, well-being, and justice are addressed in the
Code of ethics
The first research project in therapeutic recreation was completed in the early 1900s
True
The rate of disability in the Canadian population is substantially smaller than in the United States
False
Focusing on the client’s limitations allows the therapeutic recreation specialist to design the most appropriate plan
False
Being a member of a professional organization is a requirement for certification
False
What are the two primary goals that frame the orientation of most nonprofit organizations?
Public benefit - organized specifically for social outcomes that appeal to a wide spectrum of population groups
Mutual benefit - to provide services to a limited number of members with common interests
What is meant by the term stay cation?
Stay cation came into the vocabulary as families started to take vacations staying at, or close to home. The term came about during economic recession and it reduced personal travel because traveling was expensive
Identify and describe the steps in the therapeutic recreation process and the purpose of each step
Assessment - to gather and synthesize info about client and his or her environment in order to devise an individualized treatment plan
Planning - the development of the clients treatment plan
Implementation - to implement the program; to put the treatment plan into action
Evaluation - formative evaluation is ongoing during program, and summative occurs at the end of program to see clients goals were met
Which of the following is a nonprofit leisure service organization?
Boy Scouts of America
