Activity Selection

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Activity Selection Goals

• KNR 273
• Stumbo Peterson, 20049

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Activity Selection Overview

• Selecting the right activities is a crucial task
• Need specific activities if goal is to change
  some aspects of client behavior
• Intervention program
• Need the right activities for client outcomes

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Factors Influencing Selection of Activities

• Activity content and process
• Client characteristics
• Resource factors

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Activity Content Process

• Activities must have a direct relationship to the
  client goal
• Client goal Improve leisure awareness
• Good selection Paper-pencil activity identifying
  benefits of leisure
• Poor selection Monopoly
• WHY???

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Functional intervention activities should focus
  on the ability to help client reach goals
• Activities that client knows or is easy to learn
• Client goal Increase physical endurance
• Good selection Walking
• Poor selection Pilates
• WHY???

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Functional intervention leisure education
  activities should have predominant
  characteristics that are related to problem,
  skill, or knowledge being addressed
• Select activities with strongest capability of
  producing outcomes
• Client goal Increase dyad interaction
• Activity 1 Backgammon
• Activity 2 Video games
• Which is best? Why?

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Activity characteristics are important
  considerations
• Active involvement, social interaction
• Client Adolescent, moderate DD
• Client goal Improve concentration
• Activity 1 Video game
• Activity 2 Square dance
• Activity 3 Crossword puzzle
• What concerns do you have of each activity?

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Clients should see usefulness and applicability
  to overall rehabilitation or treatment outcomes
• Client 12 y/o male, SCI, paraplegia
• Setting Acute rehab unit
• Client goal To acquire new leisure skills
• Activity 1 Bridge
• Activity 2 Building remote-controlled models
• Activity 3 Designing sewing clothes
• Rationale to select or exclude activities

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• A single activity or session is not likely to
  produce desired behavioral change
• Sequence of activities in session
• Series of sessions
• Hands-on practice

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Application
• Client Adult, BKN leg amputation with new
  prosthesis
• Client goal Increase standing and walking
  endurance and balance
• Activities Darts, shuffleboard, ping-pong,
  dancing
• How many sessions? Length of session to meet
  goal?
• How sequence activities

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Consider activities people will participate in
  when they have choice (future lifestyle)
• Client 73 y/o female, CVA
• Setting LTC, permanent placement
• Client goal Improve adjustment to disability
  facility
• Activity 1 Plant care
• Activity 2 Community dance club
• WHY???

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Program to clients outcomes priorities
• Shorten length of stay
• Processes, resource person
• Example?

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Activity Content Process (cont.)

• Client involvement in activities should be
  enjoyable

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Client Characteristics

• Demographic characteristics need to be considered
  when designing programs
• Gender
• Age
• SES
• Ethnicity
• Education
• Religion
• Financial condition
• Effects past experiences leisure preferences

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Client Characteristics (cont.)

• Clients should see obvious carryover value in
  activity participation
• Relevant to their future
• Relevant to their goals
• Relevant to environment will return to

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Resource Factors

• The number of clients included in the activity
  and the number of staff
• Risk
• Amount of material that can be covered
• Make goals attainable
• Smaller goals

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Resource Factors (cont.)

• Allow adequate time to learn, practice, and enjoy
  skill
• Too much equipment detracts from focus of
  treatment goal

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Selecting Activities Based on Client Goals

• Goal Improve eye-hand coordination
• Activity 1 Battleship
• Activity 2 Volleyball
• Activity 3 Jigsaw puzzle
• Activity analysis
• Which is most appropriate?

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Selecting Client Goals Based on Activities

• Activity 1 Bocce
• Activity 2 Horseshoes
• Activity 3 Aerobics
• Activity 4 Square Dance
• Activity analysis
• What goals from these activities?