Inclusive Leisure Practice

Self Awareness

• Personal beliefs, attitudes, values, feelings and behaviours in understanding disability issues
• Self-reflection and self-awareness
• The impact of personal and professional values on potential practice in recreation and health promotion

Historical  Perspective

• A historical perspective, evolution of services
• The process of devaluation: segregation, institutionalization
• Human rights: punishment, poverty, restrictions, advocacy
• Perceptions of ability/disability

Systems Theory

• A holistic, ecological perspective
• Socio-cultural, environmental and psychological factors
• Individual, family, community perspectives
• Systems common in leisure, recreation and health promotion

Humanistic Perspective:  Therapeutic Relationships

• Strategies to contribute to self reliance, interdependence and quality of life
• Building the helping relationship: values and therapeutic recreation
• Pragmatism, competence, respect, genuineness
• Helping clients develop self-efficacy
• Social role valorization

Inclusive Practice and Community Recreation Integration

• Person-centred approach to recreation and health promotion
• Overview of disabling conditions
• Self empowerment:  competence, contribution, control and connection
• Barriers to equal access: physical and psychological
• Values, social roles and their implications for leisure, recreation and health
• Community and community building
• Leisure and recreation inclusive practice
• Elements of community integration including:  physical and psychological access, interdependence,   relationships, friendships, and community
• Types and processes of advocacy.