Skills and Competencies in Therapeutic Recreation
Below is a list of general understandings as well as skills that a person in the profession of therapeutic recreation should have and use throughout his or her career.
-This list comes from the textbook Therapeutic Recreation: An Introduction by D. Austin.
- Theories/understandings of play, recreation, and leisure
- Human development throughout the life span
- Anatomy and physiology
- Basic assumptions about human nature
- Etiology, course, and prognosis of various diagnostic categories
- Disease sequelae
- Effects of stress on individuals
- Perception of clients as "whole persons," not just as individuals possessing symptoms
- Effects of major drugs
- Health and safety information for working with clients
- Medical and psychiatric terminology
- Principles of rehabilitiation
- Concepts of health and wellness
- Attitudes toward illness and disability
- Self as a therapeutic agent
- Leadership of various recreation/leisure activities (e.g., arts and crafts, camping, games, sports)
- Theory and technique of group leadership
- Community leisure resources for client involvement
- Activity analysis procedures
- Careful selection of activities to meet treatment aims
- Interview skills
- Leisure counseling theory and technique
- Client assessment
- Treatment goals formulation
- Stating behavioral objectives
- Treatment/rehabilitation planning
- Theory and application of treatment/rehabilitation approaches (e.g., client-centered approach)
- Learning/teaching principles
- Behavior management techniques
- Evaluation of intervention outcomes
- Client records and documentation (e.g., charting on clients)
- Referral procedures
- Assistive techniques and adaptive devices for specific illnesses and disabilities
- Ethical and professional standards of practice
- Legal aspects of therapeutic recreation
- Procedures for mainstreaming and integration
- Giving and receiving clinical supervision
- Role and function of health care systems
- Role of therapeutic recreation as a component of health care
- Role and function of kindred professionals
- Current professional issues and trends (e.g., accreditation, credentialing)
- Historical foundations of therapeutic recreation as they influence the philosophy of practice
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