Leisure Ability Model

Leisure Ability Model 1. Purpose: have satisfying, independent and freely chosen leisure lifestyle 2. Relates to satisfying leisure lifestyle, quality of life, and happiness/lifesatisfaction 3. Both clinical and community settings 4. Tries to move away from the medical model 5. Underlying basis stems from a. Learned helplessness vs. Mastery/Self-Determination b. Intrinsic motivation, internal locus of control and personal causality (external or internal) for successful activities want to make an internal, external- luck c. Choice d. Flow 6. Assumptions a. Right to Leisure i. Every individual wants and needs leisure b. Many, if not most, individuals experiences barriers to satisfying leisure i. Lack of social skills, lack of leisure education, financial c. Individuals with disabilities and illnesses face more frequent barriers to leisure i. Physical accessibility barriers, transportation, etc. 7. Three components a. Treatment: functional intervention i. Services provided for four different domains: physical, mental, emotional, social b. Leisure Education i. Leisure awareness: what leisure is 1. Knowledge of leisure 2. Self-awareness in relation to leisure 3. Leisure and play attitudes 4. Cognitive ii. Social interaction skills: 1. Small group social skills 2. Large group social skills iii. Leisure activity skills: building on leisure repertoire 1. Traditional and non-traditional 2. Repertoire of a diverse group of leisure skills iv. Leisure Resources: 1. Activity opportunities 2. Personal resources 3. Family and home resources 4. Community resources 5. State and national resources c. Recreation Participation i. Programs are structured activities that allow for the client to work on new skills ii. Provided to allow the client greater freedom of choice within an organized delivery system iii. Client outcomes are individualistic 8. Process: shows the steps to achieving leisure lifestyle without saying how a. Y: roles of rec specialist i. Therapist ii. Counselor iii. Facilitator b. X: needs of client 9. Four domains of treatment service a. Physical b. Mental c. Emotional/Affective d. Social e. Ultimate goal: to eliminate, significantly improve or teach the client to adapt to existing functional limitations that hamper efforts to engage fully in leisure pursuits 10. Leisure Lifestyle a. Means the client i. Has reduced major functional limitations that prohibit or significantly limit leisure involvement ii. Understands and values the importance of leisure in the totality of life experiences iii. Has adequate social skills for involvement with others iv. Is able to choose between several leisure activity options on a a daily basis and make decisions for leisure participation v. Is able to locate and use leisure resources as necessary vi. Has increased perceptions of choice, motivation, freedom, responsibility, causality, and independence with regard to his or her leisure 11. Strengths a. Extensive use in therapeutic recreation b. Flexibility in three components of service (leisure education, recreation participation, treatment) i. Allow custom design programs for each individual’s need c. Not specific to any one population or client group d. Targeted outcome- successfully, independent chosen leisure participation i. Focuses on quality of life 12. Weaknesses a. Not a body of theoretical knowledge i. Ill-defined/lack of philosophical bases b. Adopted a leisure behavior orientation instead of a therapy orientation i. Too broad and lacks the focus needed to direct a profession 13. Was the LAM based on theoretical justification? a. No- makes it difficult to consider it theoretical body of knowledge because terms are hard to define 14. The LAM was developed inductively. What does that mean? a. Collects information and draws conclusions from what you observe 15. Does leisure serve as an intervention or an outcome? a. Both intervention and outcome b. Iso Ahola that simply learning leisure activities c. Leisure is a part of the process- teaching to have a leisure lifestyle and it’s the outcome of the model d. Outcome: satisfying leisure lifestyle e. Are you restricted in the type of functional intervention that you can appropriately use? i. Certain functional abilities you’re allowed to work on and certain you’re not? ii. Yes. Allowed to work on functional abilities but only if they’re working on the outcome of a leisure lifestyle iii. Lift weights for wheelchair basketball 16. Area above diagonal vs. area below diagonal distinguishes what a. Amount of control that client has vs. the amount of control the specialist has