Therapeutic Recreation Practice III

The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:

Professionalism

• self awareness and self evaluation skills
• seeks and accepts feedback
• safe practice and safety awareness including personal hygiene procedures
• effective working relationships with colleagues
• effective client interaction skills
• confidentiality in all communications concerning the agency
• personal wellness and appropriate work habits
• responds to the changing needs of the agency, balancing flexibility and organizational skills
• adherence to agency policies and procedures

Knowledge of Agency

• organizational structure, philosophy
• therapeutic recreation goals, philosophy, practitioner role, etc
• application of therapeutic recreation service model
• Practicum Seminars and Learning Experiences
• attends all seminars
• completes all written assignments

Therapeutic Interventions

Helping Relationships and Skills

• client-centered, age appropriate approach to all interventions
• helping relationships build upon humanistic values
• basic and advanced communication skills
• adopts a problem management/opportunity development approach to helping
• applies helping skills to discussions about healthy leisure lifestyles

Assessment and Individual Program Planning

• understands, and responds to the disabling condition(s) of the client
• analyzes the systems: family, agency, community, economic, environmental, political, etc. which may impact upon a client’s health and leisure well-being
• observes and interviews the client to identify strengths and needs
• prepares, with the client, an individual leisure lifestyle program plan
• implements, monitors and evaluates the plan

Activity Analysis, Selection, and Adaptation

• demonstrates ability to analyze an activity
• determines if adaptations are necessary for clients

Leisure: Education and Counselling

• demonstrates knowledge of the theories and practices of leisure education and counselling
• demonstrates knowledge of group dynamics and theory of group development
• facilitates leisure education groups
• demonstrates leisure counselling strategies with individual clients
• documentation of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of all leisure counselling and leisure education interventions

Therapeutic Recreation Program Leadership

• demonstrates breadth and depth in recreation activity skills
• demonstrates effective group leadership
• applies activity analysis and adaptation skills
• group assessment, awareness of group dynamics and needs
• writes effective program protocols
• documentation of program plans
• recognizes wellness, leisure, phenomenological and ecological perspectives when implementing all therapeutic recreation interventions