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References:
-Aristotle
Carter, M., & Van Andel, G. (2011). Becoming a Member of a Profession. In Therapeutic Recreation A Practical Approach (Fourth ed., p. 16). Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press
Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved October 02, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/
Widmer, M. A., & Ellis, G. D. (1998). The Aristotelian good life model: Integration of values into therapeutic recreation service delivery. Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 32(4), 290-302.
4 Major Elements of AGL Model
Appropriate Population
* This model can be used with a variety of clients
* The most appropriate population for this model would be people who have high cognitive function
Weaknesses
Strengths
Grounded on Happiness
Defines value of goals
Can be used with a varity of clients
brings a social conscience to the understanding of leisure
* Attainment of the good life occurs based on 2 conditions:
1. A person has access to enough wealth to meet their basic needs
2. Society allows personal freedom/rights
* There are 3 principles that lead to the good life
1. Ethics of enough: too much or too little of moral principles can lead to difficulties, ethics vary between people
2. Real and apparent goods: real goods lead to good life whereas apparent goods are sought for the sake of gaining ones happiness. With apparent goods they seem beneficial for a time but after a while they lose their meaning and value
3. Wrong and right desires: wrong desires include pleasure, money, fame, power and seeking something for the good of one instead of for the good of others. Right desires are important for reaching eudemonism. These desires include art, learning, and creating.
To empower clients to overcome constraints that arise from illness, disability, oppression, wrong desires, challenges, in following the principle of enough, and focus on apparent goods that lack potential to become real goods. (Widmer & Ellis, p.291)
Unique Attributes
Goal of a TR with AGL model
4 Unique elements of the Aristotelian good life model include: afflictions and oppression, Aristotelian goods, freedom, role of the TRS
1. Affliction and oppression: lead someone to need TR services, failure to follow principle, disadvantaged people, focus on things that aren’t good for life such as smoking
2. Aristotelian goods: target outcomes of TR service, needed for good life, primary goods(functional skills), secondary goods(learning, creating, relationships), approaching leisure(summum bonum)
3. Freedom and responsibility: freedom comes through progression of treatment, greater responsibility of self, family and community
4. Role of TRS: therapist, educator, facilitator, resource, advocate
The goal of TR services is to help the client attain happiness- the "good-life"-through promoting both individual freedom and responsibility. (Widmer and Ellis, pp.16)
* The creators of this model were Gary Ellis and Mark Widmer
* It was one of the first TR models to look at ethics and why they are important to our profession
Eudaemonia:
Noun
1. Happiness; well-being.
2. Aristotelianism. happiness as the result of an active life governed by reason.
(Dictionary.com)
You're never too old to be HAPPY!
The Goal of this model is to help the client attain the "Good life" through promoting both individual freedom and responsibility.
(Carter, M. & Van Andel, G.)