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Chapter 6 Questions
2. What are appropriate therapeutic recreation objectives for people with physical impairments?
• Objectives that are helpful to clients with physical impairments are things that will help them move their body. The objectives need to be focused on things that will help them in everyday life such as changing clothes on their own before they swim, transferring in and out of wheelchair to participate in the activities, walking when appropriate and other activities. By doing the recreation, it should help them accomplish something physical that will help them in everyday life and strengthen their body.
4. Explain potential psychosocial and cognitive impacts of physical impairments on clients’ leisure experiences and well-being. How do they affect clients’ participation in activities of daily living?
• At times it clients may feel embarrassed about their impairment and feel like they can’t fit in with all the other people in the sport. One example could be if someone in a wheel chair goes swimming, they won’t be able to just leap off the diving board, but usually must be lowered into the pool at first, this could make them socially uncomfortable. They may also have self-doubt on if they can accomplish this task. Cognitive impairments could include lack of knowledge of the sport and thinking they are not good enough for the sport. By participating in the activities, clients can become knowledgeable about the sports they are in and their situation. They can also begin to feel that they belong in the activity, make friends and find that they can do hard things. This can motivate them to do other things in their daily life that may be challenging.