What is a Therapeutic Recreation Practice Model?

​It is a framework for delivery of services as a Recreational Therapist. It "guide[s] the outcomes toward which the professional will strive and everything that is done in practice to achieve those outcomes[.]” - Candy Ashton-Forrester, PhD, CTRS/LRT, FDRT and Jo-Ellen Ross, PhD, CTRS, FDRT

What is Health Protection?

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What is Health Promotion?

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Recreation Therapists construct appropriate and evidence-based recreation therapy interventions for treating patients with complex medical or mental health issues such as Polytrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); Spinal Cord Injury (SCI); Substance Use Disorder/ Addictions; Serious Mental Illness (SMI); and Hospice/Palliative Care"​ 
​- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs