I like how problems were viewed as not something negative but a challenge that requires solving to raise the quality of something. I often think of problems as something that would happen occasionally and would be dealt with as they came up. After reading this chapter, I recognize that we should always have new goals in mind to improve the workplace or a client--in other words, solving problems.
In therapeutic recreation, you are constantly solving problems because you are taking each client, understanding what their problems and limitations are, and then creating a plan to use recreation to help solve that problem. The cause-and-effect diagram, as shown on page 101, will be a very useful tool for me as a CTRS so that I can locate the cause of a clients behavior, not just the symptoms. After you have discovered the problem, the book directs us on how to develop a solution. I will often develop solutions with teams of therapists--thus, the information on group work and brainstorming was useful to me.
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