Foundations of Recreation Exam 1

Therapeutic Recreation has to involve what two parts?

Leisure context and purposeful intervention

Therapeutic recreation professionals work in what type of settings?

Physical rehabilitation, mental health facilities, and community settings

What are the reasons for studying and understanding the history of your profession?

Helps us avoid mistakes and learn from successes, provides a sense of professional identity, helps people interpret the present reality

Who was the individual that is associated with the settlement houses that developed in the 1800s?

Jane Addams

Who was the individual the book talked about that was associated with developing recreation based interventions for British veterans of the Crimean War?

Florence Nightingale

Which organization trained hundreds of professionals to provide hospital recreation after World War II in Veteran’s hospitals?

The Red Cross

Which organization is the independent credentialing agency that oversees the certification process for therapeutic recreation professionals?

The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification

The fragmentation period of therapeutic recreation involved which of the following trends or events?

The development of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association. The debate concerning the philosophical position of therapeutic recreation.

Of the four positions of therapeutic recreation that were considered for adoption in 1982, which position was adopted by NTRS?

The leisure ability approach

Of the four positions of therapeutic recreation that were considered for adoption in 1982, which position is most appropriate for the current therapeutic recreation practice environment, according to chapter 2?

The umbrella, or combined, approach

The leisure ability approach to therapeutic recreation involves what three phases?

Treatment/therapy, leisure education, and recreation participation

The hull-house lab museum was developed to address which of the following problems?

Bad attitudes of young immigrant children toward their parents and bad attitudes of Americans toward poverty-stricken immigrants

Philosophy

deals with assumption, truths and fundamental principles used as a foundation for building a theoretical explanation

Rationalism

The philosophy that people should only trust things of the mind

Empiricism

is the philosophy that knowledge should only be gained through direct experience

Existentialism

is a combination of both rationalism and empiricism. Experience includes passion, identity, suffering and anguish

life scheme

ties our past, present and future into a logical whole oriented around life goals

existential vacuum

is the alternative to finding meaning

Flow

is a peak experience where you match skills with a particular challenge

True

Programs that use leisure as a therapy tool can ultimately lead to enhanced leisure functioning

True

It is essential to target outcomes in a therapeutic recreation program

True

Therapeutic recreation IS NOT a profession that is right for everyone

True

The Inkerman Cafe provided an alternative to soldiers who frequented Local bars

True

The Red Cross trained a great number of professionals to work with injured war veterans during hospital recreation

True

Jane Addams was one of the original “play ladies” of Hull-house

True

Hospital recreation became a branch of teh American Recreation Society in 1949

True

The utopian years of therapeutic recreation included the popularization of the principles of Normalization and Inclusion

True

The fragmentation years of therapeutic recreation were characterized by the development of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association

True

The author of chapter 2 asserts that the roots of therapeutic recreation tied to both leisure and medicine