Adult Recreational Therapy (RT)
Recreational Therapists, "Simply put, they help patients help themselves."
What is Adult Recreational Therapy (RT)?
View Educational Video about Recreational Therapy from the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH):
View Educational Video from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) -
Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital:
How May Adult RT Help Me?
"Recreational Therapy professionals provide patients with state-of-the-art evidence-based treatments (i.e. based on research) beginning with patient assessment and continued with therapeutic interventions designed to result in the highest levels of function. Recreational Therapists use a wide range of activity and community based interventions and techniques to improve the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and leisure needs of patients. Therapists work with the patient and their family to incorporate specific interests and community resources into therapy to achieve optimal outcomes that transfer to their real life situation."
- National Institutes of Health
View Educational Video from St. Petersburg Parks and Recreation Department (USA):
Evidence
View Educational Video from CHI Health
(regional health care network in the USA in IL, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and North Dakota):