This unit uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore the different meanings of leisure and recreation. It explores the social psychology of leisure and recreation in addition to the principles and processes of leisure education and leisure counselling. This unit provides the knowledge base that underpins the practical skills of leisure and recreation assessment, program planning and evaluation for a variety of client groups.

This unit provides the student with an understanding of current trends underlying policies and services in the aged care and disability industry, which will help them to understand the dynamics of the changing aged care and disability service sector. Students will examine the strategic environments of aged care and disability to develop global and national perspectives, identify drivers of change and development, and the major players in aged care and disability policies. Students will develop an understanding of the aged care and disability competencies and determinants of well-being for aged and disabled persons, which can be used in their future roles in the health industry. Through reflections on practice in aged care and disability , students will develop an individual approach to aged care and disability service issues which they can use in the future as health care professionals.

This unit provides students with the opportunity to apply theoretical and practical knowledge and skills gained in the course to develop their practice and professional behaviours in a therapeutic recreation workplace setting.

This unit provides students with the opportunity to experience the practice of therapeutic recreation/ diversional therapy through supervised needs assessment, problem identification, program planning, implementation and evaluation in a range of distinct therapeutic service setting. Identify and provide services for people from special populations such as culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), refugees and trauma victims, indigenous people, older people, people with learning problems and high risk populations. Students are to explore the advocacy and support needs of the clients receiving services. Students will explore issues related to quality supervision and their own learning styles as they develop learning contracts to be used in the workplace learning setting.

In this unit students will explore leisure education that is used in a broad range of service industries that focus on the development and acquisition of a range of leisure, recreation and programming related skills, knowledge and attitudes. Students will develop a philosophical approach to leisure and recreation and skills in communication and facilitation strategies to enable them to use appropriate decision-making processes in developing recreation programs for a range of people across the lifespan. Students will utilise a variety of leisure,recreation and tourism resources to develop recreation programs that will assist in enhancing the lifestyle opportunities and leisure experiences for the client populations they serve.

The aim of this unit is for students to apply their knowledge of professional theory, practice, research and evaluation skills to the investigation of a therapeutic recreation professional issue. Emphasis in the unit is on the development of a research/evaluation proposal through literature review and research design outline of a program with a proposed method of evaluation suitable for use in a community setting.