Test 2 Flashcards
Give examples of person-first language.
Addict=person with an addiction Clinical case manager= support staff Helpless= person who needs support Hopeless= person unaware of opportunities Patient= their name
What is a model?
A graphic representation that captures the scope of practice.
What are 3 ways in which knowledge of Therapeutic Recreation is documented and transmitted?
Formal education
Peer reviewed
Evidence based practice
What is the purpose of deficits based approach?
The purpose is to help people fix their problems. This approach focuses on the persons deficits.
What is the purpose of the strengths based approach?
The strengths based approach is to help people reach their goals by building upon their strengths.
What is the ultimate goal of the Leisure Ability Model?
Independent Leisure lifestyle
What is the ultimate goals for the Leisure Well-Being Model?
Improve Well-Being
What are standards of practice?
Set of values as a means to evaluate the profession.
According to Anderson and Heyne, what are the characteristics of a profession?
Formal transmitting of knowledge
Specialized body of knowledge
According to Peterson and Seligaman, how many character strengths are there?
And how many virtues?
There are 24 character strengths
There are 6 virtues
What is the strengths-Paradigm (model) Shift?
Historically, human services would ask “what’s wrong with you? How are we going to fix it?”
Now, human services look at clients with a strengths based approach and they ask “what are you good at? How can we help build from there to help you”
What are the 4 major breakthroughs for the strengths based approach model?
- The human brain resists change
- Focus is power
- Expectations shape reality
- Attention density shapes identity
In order to have positive psychology, people need to have the following things…
Flow and optimal experience
Self efficacy
Good Well being
Optimism and happiness
What are internal strengths?
Interests Preferences Passions Talents Abilities Skills Competency Knowledge Aspirations Goals Knowledge
What are the 6 core virtues?
Wisdom Courage Humanity Justice Temperance Transcendence
What are external strengths?
Home resources Community resources Opportunities for participation High expectations Friends/social support Family support
What are the 8 principles to guide a strengths based practice?
- Everyone has strengths
- Difficulties are sources of challenge and opportunity
- We don’t know everyone’s limits to grow and change
- Collaboration
- Every environment is full of resources
- Context matters
- Hopefulness matters
- Strengths can be nurtured
What is the purpose of TR models?
Designed to provide frameworks for delivery of services
Frame of reference to describe and direct professional practice
Allows TR’s to interpret the profession to others
What type of questions do TR models allow us to answer?
How do I make a choice regarding which direction to take with this person?
What is the range of intervention options I have?
What am I ultimately aiming for when I use my Therapeutic techniques to intervene with this person?
What are some drawbacks or limitations to models of practice?
Models are two dimensional which means there is a lack of depth
It is difficult to encompass the entirety of the practice which means a lot of the work TR’s do is not captured
The real world are not static which means that an image implies a perfect scenario when we do not live in a perfect world
What is a continuum model?
Participants work through a continuum from less unhealthy/functional to more functional and healthy
Deficits of participants place them somewhere along a continuum and they will progress to higher levels within that continuum based on remediation of problems and they will receive different services depending on their level of functioning
What is an integrated model?
They are repeated rather than continuum in nature