Recreation Therapy More than Diversion

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by Cassie Gagnon1 view·Updated Apr 28, 2021
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  1. So my name is Cassie Gang in and I decided
  2. to look at Chapter one um in the book lessons
  3. learned. So this chapter really focuses on the fact that
  4. recreational therapy is not diverge in therapy.
  5. Um Our goal is yes to create positive emotions but
  6. also help people heal physically emotionally mentally.
  7. Um And we provide symptom reduction but we're way more
  8. than that.
  9. Okay, so positive emotions really allow people to embrace their
  10. recreational plans from us um and if they're feeling a
  11. little discouraged, it really opens them up more to new
  12. experiences and trying new things.
  13. Um So our aim is really to create those positive
  14. emotions that lead to building of positive traits and abilities
  15. and thus increasing um There are overall positive emotions and
  16. feelings towards the recreational activities because a lot of the
  17. people that we will work with are struggling with things
  18. that may create them to have negative emotions and so
  19. we want them to want to better themselves.
  20. Okay, so what can they do in order to build
  21. those positive emotions?
  22. Well, if we get them to have more positive emotions
  23. towards the therapy, they're more apt two want to change
  24. and make these physical emotional mental changes that will improve
  25. upon their lives.
  26. Um so for us, the most important thing is that
  27. we try to build a relationship with them enough that
  28. they trust us and can be positive towards their therapy
  29. and want to make those differences.
  30. So, as I said before, the book, and the author
  31. really focus on the fact that when people are just
  32. positive, they're more apt to try new things and there's
  33. not a lot holding them back so they will push
  34. themselves. So if they come in and say they get
  35. in a car accident and they're doing therapy for that,
  36. they're probably not happy.
  37. And so it's our job to really make them push
  38. themselves and build those positive emotions towards us, that they
  39. trust us enough to try new things.
  40. And that's really the goal.
  41. Positive emotions.
  42. All right.
  43. So, the next thing I decided to look at from
  44. this chapter um was the difference between her ability, Haitian
  45. and rehabilitation.
  46. Um So rehabilitation is really regaining skills or abilities um
  47. that we have lost based on an injury or an
  48. illness. So we use this with stroke patients.
  49. We use this with like athletes to get her um
  50. during their sport, that kind of thing.
  51. Huh? Ability Ation is a process that's aimed at helping
  52. individuals with disabilities um gain or keep or improve on
  53. their skills of daily living.
  54. So that be things like going to the bathroom or
  55. changing themselves or just standing up even.
  56. Um So there are a bit different um based on
  57. where we use this therapy.
  58. Um So to get back into the real point of
  59. this chapter, it was what really is the difference between
  60. diversion therapists in recreational therapists?
  61. Um So diversion therapy really works with everybody and they
  62. make recreation and leisure programs.
  63. They are designed to really get their mental space back.
  64. Um It works on psychologically spiritually socially and emotionally game
  65. like improving on their well being.
  66. Um So their whole goal is to really distract them
  67. from maybe the negative things in their lives or say
  68. they can't walk.
  69. They distract them from that fact because maybe they just
  70. won't ever get it back.
  71. Um recreational therapists, we want to restore that function.
  72. So our goal is to really take their positive emotions
  73. and help them restore all the things that they lost
  74. from an illness injury, anything like that.
  75. We don't just want to distract them.
  76. We want to actually see if we can help them
  77. improve on things that they may have lost.
  78. So as I come to an end here, I think
  79. the main thing that everybody should take out of this
  80. and out of chapter one from the book, lessons learned
  81. is that we are so much more than providing distractions
  82. for people.
  83. We want to see them improve on their life more
  84. than they thought that they could.
  85. So it is really our job to make sure that
  86. they don't give up on themselves and they do put
  87. in the effort that they can, and so positive emotions,
  88. knowing the difference between diversion and recreational therapy is so
  89. important to our job.
  90. Thanks for listening.