Leisure 2130 Midterm Flashcards
Cultural competence
being able to work effectively with cultures other than your own by using a set of behaviours, attitudes, and policies, that are congruent with that culture.
Evidence-based practice
the integration of your individual practice experience with the best available external evidence when you are helping participants make decisions and implement plans for leisure and well-being.
Paradigm
a philosophical or theoretical framework, an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community.
Paradigm shift
a change from one way of thinking to another;
a transformation driven by agents of change.
Sea change
a fundamental and profound transformation.
Problem oriented/ deficits-based approach
main purpose, the amelioration of problems through assessment and prescribed interventions.
focus: assessments on what is wrong with the problem.
- deficits, illness, distress, disability, poor functioning, or other negative states.
Strengths/ capabilities-based approach
main purpose is to help people reach their goals and aspirations.
focus: attention and assessment on what people want their lives to be like, and what resources and strengths they have or need to get there.
goals: driven by aspirations of participant
4 pillars of positive psychology
the study of:
- positive emotion and experiences
- positive traits
- positive relationships
- positive and enabling institutions
Glass half empty or half full?
Theory
Glass never changes.
Observer has the option to see the glass differently and make a difference on how the glass is perceived.
Change is difficult
the brains innate resistance to change is an import concept for those of us in professions where we focus on helping people change.
Two main reasons for our resistance to change
- area of brain that takes in new information, takes a lot of energy to use and can only handle so much info. Takes info and rewrites it to a less energy-intensive part of the brain (basal ganglia).
- Our brain has a strong ability to detect errors. That is differenced between what we expect and what actually happens.
Self-directed neuroplasticity
the idea that we can change our brain structure by where we focus our attention.
Attention density
amount of attention we give to a particular experience over time.
Best friends approach in Alzheimer’s care
a way of providing support and care to individuals with Alzheimer’s and their families.
MAPS
McGill Action Planning System or Making Action Plans
a process used by the circle of support to gather information about the participant and use it to develop a plan of action based on listening and dreaming.
PATH
Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope
a more sharply focused process that provides a detailed plan of action through eight distinct steps.
PATH eight distinct steps
- touching the dream
- setting the goal
- grounding in the now
- identifying people to enrol
- recognizing ways to build strengths
- charting action for the next few months
- planning the next months work
- committing to the first step
Community based rehabilitation
promotes collaboration among community members, people with disabilities, their families, and other concerned citizens to provide equal opportunities for all people with disabilities in the communities.
Community coaching in community development
all about paradigm shifts in health and human services.
Ecological perspective
importance of a person in their environment.
based on the concept of an interdependent system where human beings are reliant on each other and their environments.
Deficits (problem oriented) approach
main purpose is to “fix” or get rid of problems.
Assessment and intervention.
Strengths based approach
main purpose is to help people reach their goals and aspirations.
Focus is power
paying attention creates chemical and physical changes in the brain.
If we focus on problems, hardwired mental maps.
If we focus on outcomes, hardwired mental maps.
Expectations shape reality
you get what you expect.
Attention density shapes identity
Paying attention to certain things (new and old) allows for learning to occur and change to happen.
Leisure
those experiences that are pleasant in expectation, experience, or recollection; intrinsically motivated; operational in nature; autonomous; and engaging.
Eudaimonia
describes the idea of well-being or flourishing.
Capabilities approach
conceptualize well-being as internal (how well one is able to be and to achieve) and external (sources of well-being, such as public action and social policy).
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Life
being able to live to the natural end of a human life.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Bodily health
being able to have good health and adequate nourishment.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Bodily integrity
being secure and safe, without fear or harm as on travels from place to place.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Senses, imagination, thought
being able to think, reason, and imagine, informed by an adequate education; freedom of expression; freedom to have pleasurable experiences.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Emotions
having opportunities to love and be loved, and to experience a broad range of emotions.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Practical reason
being able to form an idea about goodness, and engage in critical reflection on one’s life, and its direction.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Affiliation
being able to live and engage fully with others, with self respect and non-discrimination.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Other species
being able to live in a sustainable and respectable way with the natural world.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Play
being able to enjoy recreational activities, to laugh, and to play.
Naubaums core capabilities of well-being:
Control over ones environment
being able to participate in the political process, to have material possessions, and to work in respected employment.
Two traditions in the study of well-being:
Hedonic view
equates well-being with pleasure.
goal to life: to experience maximum amount of pleasure, or experience more positive than negative events.
Two traditions in the study of well-being:
Eudaimonic view
well-being occurs when peoples life activities are fully engaging and mesh with deeply held values.
Subjective well-being
multi-dimensional view of well-being.
both views are integrated. (hedonic and eudaimonic)
6 dimensions of well-being that are related to the good life
- acceptance of oneself
- positive relations with others
- autonomy and self-determination
- environmental master and competence
- purpose in life
- personal growth
Happiness
the experience of joy, contentment, or well-being combined with a sense that ones life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.
Authentic happiness
positive well-being as coming from the exercise or engagement of our strengths and virtues everyday of our lives.
Well-being
a state of successful, satisfying, and productive engagement with ones life and the realization of ones full physical, cognitive, and social-emotional potential.
The “good” life
seeking only enough in our lives.
understanding difference between real and apparent goods.
choosing right over wrong desires.
Quality of life:
Personal level
enjoyment and satisfaction experienced in everyday life, including health, personal relationships, the environment, quality of working life, social life, and leisure time.
Quality of life:
Community level
a set of social indicators, such as nutrition, air quality, incidence of disease, crime rates, health care, educational services, and divorce rates.
Quality of life is having satisfaction in these core dimensions
- emotional well-being
- interpersonal relations
- material well-being
- personal development
- physical well-being
- self-determination
- social inclusion
- right
Health
absence of illness or the general condition of the body.
Functioning ability
the ability to meet the demands of the environment through bodily functions, activities, and participation in day-to-day life.
3 levels of human functioning
- body or body part
- whole person
- whole person in a social context