Therapeutic Recreation and Recreation Health Promotion Practice: Diploma

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, goals
• •Recreation department (equivalent) goals, philosophy, practitioner role
• •Application of therapeutic recreation service models

Helping Relationships and Skills

• •Client-centred, age appropriate approach to all interventions
• •Helping relationships build 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
• •Session plan
• •Implements and evaluates the program