CHCRH1
Orientation to Work in
the Leisure and Health Industry
This
book teaches Community Workers to work within the leisure and health industry.
The key aims of the leisure and health worker is to enhance the wellbeing of
individuals seeking such services.
CHCRH2A
Leisure and health
programming
This
book teaches Community Workers to work with health practitioners and other
relevant people to create, plan, coordinate, deliver & evaluate appropriate
leisure and health activities and programs for individuals and groups.
CHCRH3B
Develop Leisure and Recreation Programs for
Clients with Special Needs
This book teaches Community Workers to identify and respond to the groups and individuals with special needs.
CHCRH4B
Co-ordinate, implement
and monitor
leisure and health
programs
This book teaches Community Workers to undertake advanced planning, co-ordination and evaluation of programs for the provision of activities for individuals and groups.
These
books are specifically designed to cater for workers in the community services
sector and has information that supports workers involved in service provision
to special needs groups such as in aged care or disability services.
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and charts have been used to assist with multi faceted learning, and there are
additional exercises in the Activity
section and in the mandatory Final Assessment
Section.
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assessed.
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All Work Reflects an
Understanding of the Value of Leisure, Recreation, and Play in Enhancing Well
Being
The
concept of both health and leisure has varied and contested meanings. The understanding
we have of health however, is important for determining ways in which leisure
might be considered meaningful to health policy. For example, the ways in which
leisure and health care providers understand the connection between leisure and
health will have direct bearing on the way these services are delivered.
Various
forms of leisure can be used for preventative or therapeutic health purposes,
however, we should also realise that in keeping with the actual meaning of the
term leisure, there is no need for leisure activities to have any purpose.
The World
Health Organisation (WHO) has defined health as ‘a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity’.
Physical
Health
Involves
being free from illness and being fit enough to be able to do the things you
want to do.
Mental
Health
Involves
feeling good about yourself, having a positive attitude to life and being able
to cope with everyday stresses and strains.
Social
wellbeing
Involves
being able to interact with people around you in a positive way.
Despite
this holistic definition, arguments for outcome based leisure participation
tend to focus on health as the prevention of disease, without mention of
quality of life or other factors. While sections of the health profession
remain skeptical, another approach to health has emerged in recent times, which
emphasises wellbeing and moves beyond health as the absence of disease.
The term
‘wellness’ represents a deliberate attempt to capture positive aspects of
health and a sense of wellbeing, moving away from the negative connotations of
health. Also, the idea of ‘wellness’ takes into account the subjective
experience of individuals and how they conceptualise their own physical, mental,
and social health including emotional/spiritual health.
Sport and
recreation can be defined as the vast array of health activities that people
pursue in their leisure time and which we generally think of as leisure. They
include activity groupings such as entertainment and the arts, attending
sporting and cultural events, participating in sport and physical recreational
activities, involvement in hobbies and interests pursued out of personal taste,
watching television or videos, listening to music, reading, social involvement
with friends, family, community groups and taking holidays.
It doesn’t
take much to gain a load of benefits from becoming more active. As little as 30
minutes a day can improve wellbeing and provide overall health benefits.
Overall the principle characteristics of sport and recreation are therefore,
the activity is freely chosen and undertaken by the individual in their spare
time.
Many
people, if asked about their leisure time, will claim to have very little or
none at all, but if asked about participation in specific activities their
pattern of leisure invariably emerges.
Research
on leisure motivation seeks to discover why people engage in leisure
activities. The focus of much of this research has been the question of whether
people engage in leisure for intrinsic
or extrinsic reasons.
The
intrinsic value of leisure is people engage in activities for their own sake.
The activities provide their own rewards, such as relaxation, enjoyment, and
satisfaction.
The
extrinsic, extra, value is you stay mentally, emotionally, and physically alert
and continually grow. The rewards, in this case, come from outside the activity
itself for example, in the form of social approval for success in sport or
dance, obtaining health benefits from engaging in physical recreational
activities, or gaining peer acceptance.
Overall,
researchers suggest activities are more leisure like and more satisfying if
they are intrinsically motivated.
Ones
wellbeing arises from many interconnected factors in personal life and the
community in which you live. Certainly health is not just the absence of
disease or symptoms. Your self esteem, independence, and interdependence with
others are crucial. They come from leisure, learning. and work activities which
challenge you on many levels.
Wellness
comes from psychological and social factors as much as medical ones and can be
affected by the type of sport, recreation, and social services available and
whether they encourage the independence of a person being supported.
Older
people need the same things as younger people i.e. shelter, food, company,
support, and activities they find interesting. They need to be autonomous and
to lead their lives in a way which gives self esteem and a sense of worth. In
short, to feel valued.
All these
factors are, of course, interrelated. For example, financial stability helps
give you a choice of leisure, health services and activities. Also being with
others to the degree one needs, contributes to the feeling of wellness.
People
with disabilities or with special needs may require particular attention with
regard to the design and planning of leisure and recreation activities. These
people are valued members of society, and have a right to be included and
participate fully in the community. For people with disabilities, leisure and
recreation goes beyond respite and is a central factor which leads to increased
opportunities, health, and quality of life.
It is
recognised children who are active, participate in sport and recreation activities,
will learn and develop more effectively. Also, modern research shows adults who
establish and maintain a balance between work and leisure activities develop
positive attitudes towards their own health and self image and are likely to
live longer, healthier lives.
Overall,
wellness has to do with attitudes to yourself, to life, to the world, and to
other people. It is about finding a point of balance between opposing beliefs
about growing older, namely the possibilities and problems inherent in that
transition.
This
alternative approach puts the responsibility for day-to-day health in the hands
of individuals, rather than relying on the medical profession, prescription
drugs, surgery, and hospitalisation to restore health.
The
logical extension of this alternative and beneficial approach is to return the
control over health to the wider population and incorporate healthy lifestyle
activities into day-to-day living.
All
Work in the Sector Reflects Consideration of the Historical Context of the Sector
Two major historical influences on
contemporary Australian leisure can be identified, namely, traditional
Indigenous Australian culture, and the European tradition, particularly the
British. North American and Asian cultural influences in
Contemporary Australian leisure
today originated from the English working and middle class influences of the
early colonial period (eighteenth century), as they were played out in the
environment of a male dominated penal colony. The importance of sport,
drinking, and gambling as leisure activities was established at this time.
Sport activities included, cricket, sculling, football, bicycle races, and most
commonly horse racing with bookmakers regularly attending race meetings, and
Australian Rules Football and cricket matches.
Following these beginnings, the
question arises as to whether the development of leisure in
There are many other examples of
past events filtering into present ideology and practice related to leisure.
There is evidence to suggest while the role of television, car transport,
radio, film, increased affluence, and commercialisation has been common to all
economically developed capitalist societies, we would argue leisure has played
a particularly prominent role in Australia’s recent history, compared with such
in other countries.
This conclusion is from a variety
of sources used to illustrate contemporary patterns of Australian leisure time,
participation, and expenditure. Key features of the information are the
relative popularity of home based leisure and of entertainment and social
activities, the age, gender and occupational differences in participation and
the substantial significance of leisure related items in the average household
budget and hence in the economy.
Of the traditional Indigenous
Australian way of life, four major leisure themes can be identified spiritual,
creative, artistic activity, the playing of games, and forms of social
organisation.
The role of the spiritual lies in
spiritual celebration as a leisure time activity. Creative, artistic activity
can be seen as a form of continuity with traditional culture i.e. storytelling,
making music, singing and dancing, and the decorative arts such as body
painting.
The playing of games was part of
traditional Indigenous Australian culture. Some game playing is functional in
traditional communities, including the learning and practising of social and
technical skills (e.g. spear throwing contests), while other games are ‘just
for fun’. It is said games such as chess, monopoly, and the TV game show, have
their origins in tribal societies.
Finally, the forms of social
organisation which have originated from tribal societies and continues to this
day, is the demarcation of male and female roles in society. In traditional
Indigenous Australian society the role of women as food gatherers and child
carers were differentiated from the role as hunter. Also, differences between
the traditional way of life and contemporary western lifestyles are, of course,
numerous.
Leisure and health is but one of
the activities and institutions which make up social life however, the trends
of today’s modern world suggests it is of growing significance in terms of
time, activity, the individual, culture, and the economy.
Leisure participation activities
today include:
- sport
and recreation
- arts
and entertainment
- hospitality
specific
- hobbies/pastimes
- social
and entertainment
- cultural
industries
- tourism
specific.
What does the future hold for
leisure in
The factors influencing future
leisure patterns are:
- women
in the workforce
- work
and leisure
- transport
- technology
and electronic communications media
- demographic
change
- globalisation.
Overall, in considering the future
of leisure, there is a tendency to examine the impacts of new technology and
increasing individual prosperity as the two major drivers of change in our
society. Also, the multicultural combination of leisure forms in
