Leisure Services

It becomes increasingly important for leisure service agencies to be able to respond to all ..... in their communities as their ethnicities become more diverse.

In order to incorporate changes, the professional leisure service provider needs to re-conceive his idea of the individual and broaden his ..... of service delivery.

Most observers are now familiar with the important changes in the ethnic ..... of the United States.

According to 2000 ..... data, the increase in minority populations was at nearly twice the rate as appeared in the 1980s.

A good deal of the increase was among people of Hispanic ..... - a 60% increase from 1980, or 8 million people.

By 2100, people of ..... collectively will be the majority in California.

..... of anyone's reaction to this, such significant changes indicate that a new reality has emerged, with implications for all recreation, park, and leisure service providers.

Traditionally, recreation service agencies have functioned from a reductionist viewpoint where individuals were considered to be made up of discrete and identifiable parts instead of ..... entities.

Smithson et al (1992) offer an alternative viewpoint: they ..... that the individual must be thought of as a total organism with more than only leisure needs.

In addition, after the individual has been re-conceived, the ..... of roles that the professional can then utilize broadens to incorporate more than direct service.