Chronic Health Conditions and Therapeutic Recreation
Overview
Chronic Health Conditions
- Common chronic health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disorders, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, sensory impairments
- Chronic health conditions and the International Classification of Functioning (ICF)
- Impact of chronic health conditions on one’s ability to live well
Best Practices and Evidence Based Interventions
- Evidence based interventions for different chronic health conditions
- Link to, and inform TR practice
- Program protocol format to design evidence based TR programs for individuals with chronic health conditions
Leadership
- Individual leadership of evidence based TR programs for groups
- Self management program models and techniques
- Behavior change models
Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
- Current models
- Role of therapeutic recreation within different models
- Role of leisure education – particular application of Serious Leisure
- Lecture/discussion
- Case studies
- Media
- Community service learning
- Technology – digital camera filming
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Tests
- Written assignments
- Leadership presentation
This is a letter graded course.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss chronic health conditions and their impact on quality of life
- Examine evidence based interventions for chronic health conditions and discuss how these can inform therapeutic recreation practice
- Design evidence based therapeutic recreation programs for individuals with chronic health conditions
- Apply leadership techniques for evidence based TR programs, self management and behavior change
- Discuss models of chronic disease prevention and management and the role of therapeutic recreation within them.
T.B.A.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for THRT 2408 |
---|---|
Athabasca University (AU) | AU HSRV 2XX (3) |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU HKIN 2XX (3) |
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | No credit |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | No credit |
Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU KIN 2nd (3) |