Leisure Enhancement, Third Edition - Rilegato

Leitner, Michael; Leitner, Sara

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ISBN 10: 0789015331 ISBN 13: 9780789015334

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004

Riassunto

Teach your students the fundamentals of leisure theory and application!

Leisure Enhancement, Third Edition provides a basic understanding of leisure theory, concepts, and philosophy, and illustrates how they can be applied to effectively enhance social development, improve fitness and health, and reduce stress. This thoroughly updated text provides new information and the latest statistics on the interrelationship between fitness and leisure, and on leisure and recreation in the United States and around the world. The accompanying instructor’s guide provides exams, discussion questions, and activity ideas to bring the material in the book to life.

Students and instructors alike will benefit from this edition’s user-friendliness and its clear links between theory and application. Intended primarily as an introduction to leisure text, Leisure Enhancement, Third Edition is also ideal as a resource book for leisure and recreation majors and in leisure counseling and leisure education courses. This unique combination of theoretical and practical material presents new information on:

• leisure and recreation in the United States participation patterns for women, and racial and ethnic minorities; how leisure affects the American economy
• fitness and leisure nutrition, aerobics, and the physiological and psychological benefits of exercise
• recreation and social development the positive and negative effects of various recreational activities on social development
• gambling and recreational drug use prevalent, but controllable leisure-related problems
• leisure through the life cycle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, later life; significant life events
• leisure trends in selected countries, including Western Europe, Israel, Japan, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, Russia and the former Soviet Union, Australia and New Zealand

Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter of Leisure Enhancement, Third Edition will guide instructors and students to the most important facts and concepts in each chapter. The detailed instructor’s guide makes the book an excellent text for use by new or experienced instructors and in departments where different faculty teach the applicable courses every semester.

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Contenuti

• About the Authors
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART I: INTRODUCTION TO RECREATION AND LEISURE
• Chapter 1. Concepts of Leisure
• Introduction
• Leisure As a Category of Time
• Neulinger’s Paradigm of Leisure
• Contrasting Views of Leisure
• Recreation
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Leisure Education: Vital to the Well-Being of Society
• Introduction
• What Is Leisure Education?
• Prominence of Leisure in Society
• Leisure: Continued Growth, Decline, or Stabilization?
• The Relationship of Leisure and Mental Health
• Leisure-Related Problems
• Leisure Counseling
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Historical Influences on Leisure Today
• Introduction
• Purposes and Benefits of Studying Leisure History
• Primitive and Early Civilizations
• The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Protestant Reformation
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Recreation Movement in Twentieth-Century America
• The Recreation Movement in the Twenty-First Century
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Leisure and Recreation in the United States Today
• Introduction
• Free Time in the United States
• Recreational Participation Patterns
• Recreation Participation Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• Leisure Participation Patterns of Women
• Leisure in the U.S. Economy
• The Leisure Services Field
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Why People Recreate: Theoretical Explanations
• Introduction
• Early Play Theories
• Other Theories of Play and Recreation
• Categorization/Models of Leisure Needs/Benefits/Satisfactions
• Summary
• PART II: APPLICATION OF THEORY TO ENHANCE LEISURE WELL-BEING
• Chapter 6. Leisure Planning and Time Management
• Introduction
• Benefits of Leisure Planning and Goal Setting
• Time-Management Principles
• Sleep Reduction
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Fitness and Leisure
• Introduction
• The Fitness-Leisure Connection
• Definition of Fitness
• The Fitness Illusion
• Physiological Benefits of Exercise
• Psychological Benefits of Exercise
• Beginning and Maintaining a Recreational exercise Program
• The Components of Health-Related Physical Fitness
• The Total Workout for Aerobic Fitness
• Measuring Intensity of Exercise
• Examining the Aerobic Potential of Recreational Activities
• Creating Fun, Highly Aerobic Recreational Activities
• Nutrition and Fitness
• Summary
• Chapter 8. The Role of Leisure in Stress Reduction
• Introduction
• Stress Theory and Concepts
• Application of Stress Theory to Recreation
• Type A/B Behavior and Leisure
• How Leisure Can Help Overcome and Prevent Distress
• Summary
• Chapter 9. The Use of Humor and Laughter in Coping with and Reducing Stress
• Introduction
• Humor, Laughter, and Stress Defined
• The Benefits of Humor and Laughter
• Incorporating Humor into Everyday Life
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Recreation and Social Development
• Introduction
• Importance of Recreational Social Interaction
• Television, Movies, and Video Games and Their Effects on Social Development
• Popular Music and Its Effects on Social Development
• Facilitating Social Development Through Leisure and Enhancing Leisure Through Socialization
• Socialization in Recreational Activities
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Gambling and Recreational Drug Use: Analysis of Two Prevalent Leisure-Related Problems
• Introduction
• Gambling
• Recreational Drug Use
• Summary
• Chapter 12. Personal Leisure Philosophy
• Introduction
• The Role of Ethics in Defining Personal Leisure Philosophy
• Overcoming Obstacles to Leisure Fulfillment
• The Power of Positive Thinking
• The Right Brain and Leisure
• Self-Esteem
• Visualizing and Reaching for the Ideal
• Summary
• PART III: EXPANDING LEISURE HORIZONS
• Chapter 13. Leisure Throughout the Life Cycle
• Introduction

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0789015331
• ISBN 13: 9780789015334
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 484