Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
Therapeutic Rehabilitation as Intervention in Health Care
Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-98476-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- improving leisure lifestyles as a crucial first step in rehabilitation
- the role and importance of recreation in lives of persons with AIDS
- benefits of recreation programs in senior centers and care centers
- community-based recreation programs that emphasize preserving existing coping patterns and maintaining daily functioning
- the ability of recreation to sustain hope for psychiatric patients
- relationships between leisure education and death education
- how creative activities--music, dance, art, and creative writing--are used to promote physical mental healthWhile the chapters in Recreation, Leisure and Chronic Illness range from policy issues to specific recreation programs, as a whole they show the healing power of leisure. Professionals and students in both recreation and thanatology fields will find this volume an enlightening approach to promoting healing in those suffering from life-threatening conditions--medical, social, economic, or environmental.
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Preface - Trends That Affect the Quality of Life Through Leisure: Recreation as a Tool for Enhancement - Work, Health, and Recreation: Aspects of the Total Person - Balancing Changing Health Care Needs With the Shortage of Quality Health Care Professionals: Implications for Therapeutic Recreation - Clinical Effectiveness of Intense Therapeutic Recreation: A Multiple Case Study of Private Practice Intervention - Quality of Living Until Death: A Fusion of Death Awareness into Therapeutic Recreation-Leisure Education - Psychosocial Issues Confronting Health Care Professionals Working With People With AIDS - Occupational Therapy Intervention in Recreational Activities in Acute Care Settings - Acute Care vs. Chronic Care Models of Service to the Elderly: Implications for Therapeutic Recreation - Surviving a Fate Worse than Death: The Plight of the Homebound Elderly - Therapeutic Group Activities With Alzheimer’s Patients - Meaningful Life Activities for Elderly Residents of Residential Health Care Facilities - From Custodial Care to Quality Care: Implications for the Therapeutic Recreation Professional - The Therapeutic Value of Art for Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders - The Effectiveness of Cueing on Anagram Solving by Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Elderly - Recreation in the Nursing Home - Playing for Keeps - Reference Notes Included