Community Development and Recreation in Therapeutic Recreation Settings

Undergraduate

introduces various theoretical perspectives on community organization and development, as well as methods available to the therapeutic recreation practitioner to facilitate the development of recreation services in communities. Various issues such as poverty, ethnicity, and disability will be addressed. This course employs an ecological perspective in examining therapeutic recreation service delivery which involves community residents and groups in recreation program decision-making and implementation. The interconnectedness between leisure education, recreation and health and community development is discussed.