Therapeutic Recreation Processes and Techniques

DAVID R. AUSTIN

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Management Learning

Therapeutic Recreation Processes &amp; Techniques-5th edition presents the most current and complete information available in a text on the practice of therapeutic recreation. This book offers students a valuable learning resource and provides clinicians with a classic reference. The author combines knowledge from the behavioral sciences, psychiatry, education, nursing and counseling from therapeutic recreation. Therapeutic Recreation Processes and Techniques-5th edition is broad-based foundation that provides a scholarly basis for clinical practice in therapeutic recreation.

Therapeutic Recreation Processes and Techniques, Fifth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sagamore

Therapeutic Recreation: Processes and Techniques 6th edition by David R. Austin (2008) Paperback

Business & Money

Industries

Sagamore Publishing LLC

This book provides a personalised approach and a fresh, bold guide for students and practitioners in recreational therapy. This thought-provoking, inspiring, and accessible text will help the next generation of recreational therapists to find purpose, meaning, and fulfilment in their own lives and to bring health and happiness to their clients. Sections include: Understanding Recreational Therapy,...

Lessons Learned: An Open Letter to Recreational Therapy Students & Practitioners

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Sagamore Publishing

This edition has been extensively updated and revised in order to offer a sound knowledge base, current techniques, and the latest evidence upon which to base practice. In fact, the subtitle, 'Evidence-Based Recreational Therapy', has been added to emphasise the importance of evidence-based practice in recreational therapy. Today recreational therapists must possess a broad knowledge base that offers them a foundation for practice. This book explores how to practice recreational therapy yet provides theoretical and empirical evidence to support practice.

Therapeutic Recreation Processes & Techniques

Sports & Outdoors

This book provides students and practitioners with perspectives on the management of recreational therapy heretofore unavailable to them. Many of the management concepts apply to middle level managers, but the focus of the book is on first-line recreational therapy managers and the areas of management identified by the National Council on Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC). In-depth coverage is given to the five basic functions of management: planning, organization, staffing, influencing, and controlling. In addition, chapters are provided on key concepts integral to the management of recreational therapy programs. Included are chapters on internship supervision, clinical supervision, volunteer management, and managing marketing. The final chapter, Issues and Concerns for Managers, is unique in that it contains areas of substantial importance to managers that have received little attention in the recreational therapy literature. The format for the book is readable and easy to follow. Each chapter lists objectives for the chapter, gives definitions of key terms used within the chapter, and ends with a conclusion or summary of the chapter.

Management Functions in Recreational Therapy

Venture Publishing, Inc.

At no other time in the history of the profession have recreational therapists been presented with such tremendous opportunities to improve care and advance their profession. By gaining perspectives on issues and concerns in recreational therapy presented within this book by leading authorities, students and practitioners will be better prepared to serve clients and further their profession through a renewed mind-set. Who Will Benefit from This Book? Perspectives on Recreational Therapy is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in recreational therapy. Its contents should also prove helpful to those practicing recreational therapy. It therefore is a text that helps prepare students for the realization of what it is like to be a practitioner and to serve as a resource for them once they have entered into their careers. Two chapters that may draw the most interest from students are titled How to Take and Pass Tests and Hire Me! The first gives valuable information about how to prepare for tests in courses and for the NCTRC certification exam. (Study Guide) Hire Me! provides detailed information on how to obtain a position as a recreational therapist. User-Friendly Approach: Throughout Perspectives on Recreational Therapy, the authors have attempted to make the content of the chapters readable and easy to follow. Reading comprehension questions are provided at the conclusion of each chapter to aid students in gaining understandings of the material and to provide instructors with possible exam questions.

Perspectives on Recreational Therapy

Dr. Austin produced 23 instructional videos through the federally funded Recreation Therapy Video (RTV) Project, and he is author of the Health Protection/Health * Model of Practice. Dr. Austin has served on editorial boards for the Journal of Leisure Research, Schole, Annual in Therapeutic Recreation, and Leisure Today. He is a past president of ATRA, the Society of Park and Recreation Educators, and the Academy of Leisure Sciences, as well as a past member of the NRPA Board of Trustees. Dr. Austin is a fellow in the Academy of Leisure Sciences and a founding fellow of the National Academy of Recreational Therapists. He is the only individual to have received the NTRS Distinguished Service Award, the ATRA Distinguished Fellow Award, and the SPRE Distinguished Fellow Award. He has been awarded Indiana Universitys highest teaching award, the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has been named to the Union College Hall of Fame and was presented the Brightbill Award by the University of Illinois. In 1998, Dr. Austin received the NRPA Literary Award.

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Medical Books

Medicine

Sagamore Pub Llc

Chock-full of the very best activities, The Fun Encyclopedia for Therapists: Proven Activities for Therapists gives therapists a comprehensive resource of fun and therapeutic activities and games to use in a variety of settings with people of all ages and abilities. This book consolidates activities from top publications and resources, including Harbin's The Fun Encyclopedia, and from practitioners working in the field. From cooperative games to video games, the activities in this book have been designed to focus on specific goals and objectives for use as therapeutic tools. Most activities include debriefing questions and some have discussion built into their procedure-a key element in the therapeutic use of activities. Recreational therapists, as well as other therapists, can directly adopt and employ the activities and games in this book or simply use these to spark their creativity. Moreover, others such as organizations, friends, and family may find these activities helpful. Arising from personal experiences of the authors as recreational therapists and from input from recreational therapists practicing in the field, The Fun Encyclopedia for Therapists is sure to be a useful resource for therapists to engage participants in therapeutic activity.

The Fun Encyclopedia for Therapists Proven Activities for Therapists

Collen A. Cooke

Reference

There has been a revolution in the depth and breadth of the literature of our ever-evolving and maturing profession of recreational therapy. The authors’ goal in preparing this fifth edition of Recreational Therapy: An Introduction was to continue their quest to provide a text that would clearly define recreational therapy as a health care profession. This edition, like prior editions, focuses on the purposeful use of recreation and leisure activities as interventions to enhance the health and well-being of clients served by credentialed recreational therapists. A central feature of the book is the recreational therapy process (or APIE process) that provides a cornerstone for recreational therapy practice. As the authors finished work on this fifth edition of Recreational Therapy: An Introduction, they noted with pride that recreational therapists were listed among the “essential workers” in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This new edition will serve as a valuable asset to those doing this important work and will help further the practice of recreational therapy in health care.

Recreational Therapy, 5th ed.: An Introduction

MICHAEL E. CRAWFORD

BRYAN P. MCCORMICK

MARIEKE VAN PUYMBROECK

Sagamore Venture Publishing

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