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Requirements

Requirements for a career in 
Therapeutic Recreation.

Areas of Competencies for a TR Specialist.

  • 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 rehabilitation
  • 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
  • Interpersonal relationship skills
  • 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
Information found in: Austin, D. (2001). Therapeutic recreation: An introduction (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
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