NCTRC: National Council For Therapeutic Recreation Certification Exam Study Guide (answers) 2024

holistic approach - ANSWER- Advocates personal responsibility for healthy living recreational experience - ANSWER- Everyone has a Right to recreate. Recreation as an end to itself Treatment concept - ANSWER- used as a treatment tool to cure> to use Recreation to meet other needs/goals. social recreation - ANSWER- activity engaged in during one's leisure time that involves, in an appropriate setting, social interaction continuum model - ANSWER- This diagnoses the behavior between non-problematic use and severely problematic use. Goes from ranges of use, abuse, & dependence. Leisure ability model - ANSWER- most widely accepted and utilized. composed of 3 components 1) functional intervention 2) leisure education 3) recreation participation ultimate goal: a satisfying leisure lifestyle. Activity therapy - ANSWER- uses things the resident enjoys to prevent boredom and frustration Ecological Model - ANSWER- a model that represents or describes the relationships between the components of an ecological system Long term care - ANSWER- provide medical, nursing, dietary, recreation, rehabilitative and social services for residents. Maybe permanent or temporary. custodial model - ANSWER- This emphasizes security, discipline, and order. To do with incarceration. therapeutic milieu - ANSWER- An environment that provides client the opportunity to interact with staff and other clients. It gives the client the opportunity to practice interpersonal skills, provide feedback to peers about behavior, and work together to develop problem-solving skills. medical model - ANSWER- the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, *this* assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital. human service model - ANSWER- A treatment approch that utilizes problems solving to work with clients and their problems within the context of the environment. leisure - ANSWER- freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity attribution model - ANSWER- A person's explanation of the course of events that occurred in their life. External and internal. learned helplessness - ANSWER- condition in which repeated attempts to control a situation fail, resulting in the belief that the situation is uncontrollable perceived freedom - ANSWER- feeling free to participate in an activity without a nagging sense that you have to or that you should be doing something else intrinsic motivation - ANSWER- A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake extrinsic motivation - ANSWER- a desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment internal locus of control - ANSWER- the perception that one controls one's own fate external locus of control - ANSWER- the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate play - ANSWER- spontaneous psycho analytic - ANSWER- freud: superego and guilt, today: induction empathy based guilt: ok to feel a bit of guilt but not too much/ with superego, fear of guilt, keeps us in check fear of punishment, fear of losing love of parents 5-6 yo moral development done catharsis theory - ANSWER- the idea that viewing violence actually reduces violent behavior diversional play - ANSWER- child's activities have no purpose, indicating boredom compensation theory - ANSWER- leisure is used to *make up for* needs unfulfilled by work. surplus energy - ANSWER- The idea that children play to displace energy that is usually used for survival is what flow theory - ANSWER- high skill + high challenge. high skill + medium challenge = control (most activities we do)