Our Therapeutic Recreation Practice Model:
Health Protection/ Health Promotion
Our practice purpose "is to assist persons to recover following threats to health (health protection)
and to achieve as high a level of health as possible (health promotion)."
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?
View Educational Video from Health Education England (HEE) - NHS:
What is Health Promotion?
View Educational Video from Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) teacher in Australia:
The Health Protection/ Health Promotion Model "stipulates that the purpose of therapeutic recreation is to assist persons to recover following threats to health (health protection) and to achieve as high a level of health as possible (health promotion)."
- Austin, D. R. (1998), The Health Protection/ Health Promotion Model. Therapeutic Recreation Journal , v32 p109-117