Rec Therapy

Therapeutic Recreation

• The purposeful use and enhancement of leisure as a way to maximize a person’s overall health, well-being, or quality of life

• Intervention must be purposeful

• purposefully use leisure as a tool

• purposefully target leisure enhancement

Not all outcomes’ driven interventions are therapeutic recreation

Not all leisure activities are therapeutic recreation

Therapeutic recreation must be purposefully developed and delivered

• Gives clients freedom and control

• Choose activities based on client goals

Success in therapeutic recreation

• commitment

• compassion

• forethought

• understanding

• multitasking

• a willingness to engage others

• flexibility

• the ability to motivate others

• communication

• the ability to carry out a process

• responsibility

Occupational settings

• hospitals - employ about 38% specialist who hold national certification

• Physical rehabilitation

• Psychiatric care

• Veterans Affairs Hospitals

• Geriatric Care

• Adult Day Facilities

• Nursing Home Facilities

• Assisted Living

• Dementia Care

• Community based settings

Diverse Profession

• Dynamic mix

• perspectives

• thoughts

• theories

• unique intervention services

• mix of philosophy , psychology , the arts , occupational

History of theraputic recreation

Thereputic recreation ( the origin )

• clinical / hospital based roots

• ww1 - ww2 were the main reason of how RT came to be

Philippe served as a leisure recreational therapist in an asaylum

Mayo clinic ( William + Charks Mayo )

• used leisure parks programs to help patients

• did not know it was considered RT

Florence Nightengale ( Nurse )

• served british soldiers

• opened a cafe

• included a rec room

American Red Cross

• built recreation huts

• hospital recreational

Hull House

• low income population of immigrants

• used expressive arts

• Community RTs wanted to be “ TRs" “

• Clinical RTs wanted to be RTs

Took almost 20 years for the community to come together to decide an RT or TR

• American theraputic recreation association

• National parks recreational association ( movement toward a strenght based paradigm )

• Carte = golden standard

Productive Discomfort

• a temporary state of mental / emotional stretch that triggers learning ressiliance and personal growth instead of paralyzing stress

Cultural incompatence

• culture, youll never fully know

• setting an

• comfort zone , learning zone , panic zone

• know the skills when working in dfr.

Professional Opportunities in RT

Professional development

• exchange and transmission of professional knowledge

• continuing education

• professional and civic contributions

• research and evaluation

• career resilience

• taking control of your future

• taking planned risks

• dealing with change

Professional authority

• the ability of profession to hold its members accountable

• continuing education

• improve the level of practice

• enhance the credibility of induvial and the profession

• establish legal definition of the profession

Professional Credentialing

• state of national level

• registration , certification, and licensure

• requirements to maintain credentials

• continuing education unit

Code of ethics

• beneficence

• no malfeasance

• autonomy

• justice

• fidelity

• veracity

• informed consent

Who’s responsible

• professional associations

• credentialing bodies NCTRC state licensing board

• Agency enforcement (basically my employer)

• legal ramifications

Standards of practice

• guidelines for providing quality and effective services that are continually updated and refined by experienced professionals

• not required but are voluntary guidelines for how to provide the best overall practice and provision of therapeutic recreation

Person - First Philosophy

A person with a disability

• problems with stereotypes and using labels

• Positive use of labels

• Legal definition of disability

• Person first language