Health Protection/Health Promotion Model

In my professional practice, I would choose to use the Health Protection/Health Promotion Model. This is a model that believes the focus of a professional should be focused on assisting a person in achieving their highest possible achievement level of health. The goal is to use activity, recreation, and leisure to help people deal with problems that serve as barriers to health, as well as to assist with growth towards higher levels of health and wellness (Austin, 1998).
There are four components to the Health Protection/Health Promotion Model: the humanistic perspective, high-level wellness, the stabilization, and health. The humanistic perspective is the pivotal point of this model. It embraces the belief that each individual is responsible
Secondly, this model optimizes the potential for an individual to enjoy as high a quality of health as possible. This is achieved through means of prescriptive activities, recreation, and leisure. Prescriptive activities offer control and health improvement. This allows individuals to understand that they can still control portions of their life, and they are not dependent upon their therapist. Rather, the clients can assist the therapist in deciding what activities they want to partake in to improve their health. Recreation component restores physical, mental, and spiritual components of a being. This holistic approach ensures that these prescribed activities are working and promoting the growth of the client and their health. The final component, leisure, promotes the growth of the individual. It is a means to self-actualization because it allows for individuals to expand themselves by using their abilities to meet challenges. All of these components foster feelings of accomplishment, confidence, and pleasure within the individual, which is why I think more success would be brought about through use of this model as opposed to