Therapeutic Recreation Practice II: Diploma
Overview
Professionalism
- Self awareness and self evaluation skills
- Safe practice and safety awareness including personal hygiene procedures
- Effective working relationships with staff, volunteers and participants
- Effective client interaction skills
- Confidentiality in all communications concerning the agency
- Personal wellness and appropriate work habits
- Respond to the changing needs of the agency, balancing flexibility and organizational skills
- Adherence to agency policies and procedures
Knowledge of Agency
- Organizational structure, philosophy, goals
- Recreation department (equivalent) goals, philosophy, practitioner role
- Application of therapeutic recreation service models
- Recreation health promotion practices evident within the agency
Helping Relationships and Skills
- Client-centered, age appropriate approach to all interventions
- Helping relationships built upon humanistic values
- Basic communication and interview skills
- Problem management/opportunity development approach to helping
- Helping skills and discussions about healthy leisure lifestyles
Assessment and Individual Program Planning
- Describes the disabling condition(s) of the client
- Analyses 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
- Activity analysis
- Activity adaptation
Program Planning and Leadership
- Breadth and depth in recreation activity skills
- Effective group leadership
- Activity analysis and adaptation skills
- Group assessment, awareness of group dynamics and needs
- Documents program with a program protocol and session plans
- Implements and evaluates the program
- field practice
- small and large group seminars
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- demonstration of skills
- self assessment
- observations by site and college supervisor
- completion of written assignments
- participation in seminars
- mid-point and final evaluation meetings with site supervisor and college supervisor.
This is a Mastery/Non-Mastery course.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate professional skills in the practice of therapeutic recreation and recreation health promotion
- demonstrate knowledge of the agency and the delivery of recreation services
- apply systems theory in developing comprehensive, leisure related client assessments and individual program plans
- develop therapeutic relationships with individuals and groups based upon the values and skills of the profession
- demonstrate helping relationships and skills
- demonstrate awareness of group dynamics and leadership skills
- demonstrate recreation activity analysis and activity adaptation skills
- design, implement and evaluate recreation, therapeutic recreation and / or health promotion programs.
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Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for THRT 2444 |
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Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | No credit |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | No credit |
Course Offerings
Summer 2023
TTHRT 2444 080 is a 5 week off campus practicum is offered to Therapeutic Recreation diploma students only.Days & times vary at practicum site. Seminars will be arranged by faculty supervisor. Practicum typically is 4 days per week for 5 weeks from May 15 to June 16
TTHRT 2444 090 is a 5 week off campus practicum is offered to Therapeutic Recreation diploma students only. Days & times vary at practicum site. Seminars will be arranged by faculty supervisor. Practicum typically is 4 days per week for 5 weeks from May 15 to June 16