Therapeutic Recreation Practice IV

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

Preceptorship Seminars and Learning Experiences

• attends all seminars
• completes all written assignments

Professionalism

• self-awareness and self evaluation skills
• seeks and accepts feedback
• demonstrates knowledge of the agency and adheres to all policies and procedures
• safe practice and safety awareness
• effective working relationships with team members
• 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

Therapeutic Interventions

Administrative Practice

• aware of fiscal management practices
• policy and procedures, risk management
• aware of quality management practices, quality assurance & continuous quality improvement
• summarizes promotion of therapeutic within agency

Assessment and Individual Program Planning

• understands and responds to the disabling condition(s) of the client
• analyses the system: 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

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
• documentation of program evaluation
• recognizes wellness, leisure, phenomenological & ecological perspectives when implementing all therapeutic recreation interventions

Group Assessment

• summarizes group dynamics and needs

Promotion of Therapeutic Recreation

• describes the professional practice of therapeutic recreation within the agency & within the province
• assesses agency needs regarding knowledge of therapeutic recreation
• designs a formal in-service based on agency needs; markets the in-service
• demonstrates effective presentation skills, aware of group dynamics
• format includes: lecture, discussion and activity
• therapeutic recreation philosophies and perspectives are evident; evaluates in-service