CYC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5+6: Mantra
10 Feb 2017
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Therapeutic recreation programming healing spaces chapter 5 and 6. Meta environment includes all cultural groupings the child has had contact with within his life, the most important usually being family; can include other subgroups such as sexuality/gender. Bias: attitudes that can in uence feelings, leading individuals to have negative predispositions about a group. Discrimination: negative treatment of others based on characteristics such as race, gender, etc. Diversity: variety, range of personnel who represent minority populations and people from varied backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. Emancipation: freeing an individual/group from the control of another. Oppression: social act of placing severe restrictions on an individual/group/institution. Prejudice: opinion about an individual/group that is developed without proof. Racism: negatively stereotyping people based on their race. Stigma: characteristic of individual that is deemed as others as negative. The therapeutic cultural milieu is measured by the level of acceptance and celebration of differences within all humans; includes views of children and of workers.
