Educating Health Related Professionals On Recreational Therapy And Future Life Long Benefits

As occupational therapy services diversified, serving a variety of clients in many different settings and with societal influences, the field began to evolve. During the 1990s occupational therapists began to shift away from reductionist medical model toward a more holistic client-centered approach. Services focused on enhancing individuals’ quality of life across the lifespan meaning before, during, and after therapeutic intervention. The profession began to better acknowledge the value of client education, injury and illness prevention, health screening, and health maintenance (Cole & Tufano, 2008). The field created more preventative initiatives, and focused services on improving quality of life and optimizing the independence of

Cognitive behavioral therapy differs in several respects from more traditional forms of therapy. It focuses on two specific elements: cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation. The client and therapist work together in cognitive restructuring with the goal to restructure thinking patterns. In behavioral activation, the client overcomes barriers to participating in activities. The main focus is on the present and on specific problems. cognitive behavioral therapy is a goal oriented and educational therapy, because goals for both the short and longer term are identified and it teaches the client to modify mood en behavior. The client has therefore an active role in learning e.g. coping skills. Multiple strategies are used in cognitive behavioral therapy, like imagenary, role

Studies indicated that occupational therapists have a remarkable opportunity to be involved in health promotion (Gronski et al., 2013, Metzler, Hartmann & Lowenthal, 2012; Frenchman, 2014). They can make a distinct contribution by recognising and addressing the impact of habits and routines on managing chronic conditions and developing healthy lifestyles (Roberts, Farmer, Lamb, Muir & Siebert, 2014). The aim and scope of this essay are to define health promotion and explore its implication on occupational therapy practice.

Occupational therapy was founded on the principle that participation in meaningful activity is important to the health of individuals. Mental health is very important to the well-being of an individual and those around them. 450 million people experience mental and neurological disorders around the world. These disorders are the leading 5-10 causes of disability worldwide. As services for individuals with mental illness have shifted from the hospital to the community, there has also been a shift in the philosophy of service delivery. In the past, there was an adherence to the medical model; now the focus is on incorporating the recovery model. (2) Occupational therapy’s focus that taking part in engaging and meaningful activities benefits the mental well-being of the individual.

An interesting form of treatment for PTSD is exposure therapy, this treatment is for people with PTSD as well as substance abuse disorder (Coffey). There were 126 subjects all from an unlocked 6-week community residential SUD treatment facility. The idea behind the study was to add prolonged exposure to a 12-step program for those with PTSD-SUD. It was found that as with other cases prolonged exposure is helpful to those with PTSD and if it is early on in the substance abuse issue then it is helpful with

In order to demonstrate an understanding of social work explanatory and practice theories within DFATS, I will complete a critical analysis of the use of Cognitive behavioral therapy in rehabilitation of clients with disabilities and discuss this in supervision.

Readiness for enhanced community coping related to programs available for recreation as evidenced by local and accessible

If you are interested, associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in recreational therapy or recreation with a concentration in therapy are available that help you gain hands-on experience through internships and volunteering. To receive a license and become certified, you can earn voluntary certification through the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification. To be able to become certified in recreational therapy you are required to have at least 480 hours of supervised recreational therapy internship work, which must be completed over a course of 12 weeks working 20 hours a day. Once these qualifications have been met, an exam must be taken and passed for you to become certified.

This presentation is on the article titled, “Recovery Ranch”, by Tim Smith. This recovery facility caters to those with a number of ailments, including PTSD. This facility located in Nunnelly, TN offers a continuum of addiction treatment services. This outdoor facility allows the clients to participate in an array of recreational and leisure activities. Some treatments of PTSD are cognitive behavioral therapy and cognitive processing therapy. The ranch can be quite costly. Recovery ranch uses the social behaviors of the clients in order for their healing process to begin. This topic was chosen because the clients are able to partake in many nature activities and the participants are able to cope better with people that they can relate to. It

In the recreational therapy department, we aim to address the assessed needs of our clients through therapeutic leisure activities. Clients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder exhibit symptoms of hyperarousal, anxiety, depression, and poor concentration (Cater & Van Andel, 2011, pp. 352-353) Prior to engaging clients into activities, we will conduct research which will assist us in developing an evidence-based treatment plan. For example, during admission, I will conduct the Leisure Interest Measure assessment to identify which of the following components appeal to my client: physical, outdoor, mechanical, artistic, service, social, cultural, and reading (Burlingame & Blaschko, 2010, p. 237 ). Based on the symptoms of my client and the information

Natural environments and outdoor settings are common places people go when they want to relax or temporarily escape life’s problems. Most often, when choosing where to vacation, people commonly select a destination with picturesque sceneries or serene landscapes. For this reason, natural outdoor settings seem like an ideal place to incorporate recreational therapy activities for those with physical and mental health issues. Recreational therapists should consider several aspects of their patients lives when creating these outdoor therapy programs. This paper explores the social cognitive theory and the behavioral, personal, and environmental constructs that affect the behavior of veterans with PTSD and other psychological health issues. There will be a brief discussion regarding the details of the study as well as the author’s findings. In particular, the role of the environment on one’s behavior will be examined.

During this time of war, military personal faced with deployments and unfortunate events that lead them to physical and meatal disabilities. Many of military personal come back home with wounds that leave mental scarfs and then have to confront society alone. This often leads them to deal with more distressful situations, and in many cases leads to unfortunate outcomes. The wounded worrier program works with these individuals to help them back into society with an easy transition. Some of the problems that they have to deal are PTSD, stress, depression, physical limitations that can lead to even suicidal tendencies. The wounded worrier program has many programs that can help military personal to work with these difficulties. One of them is the physical health and wellness that is designed “to reduced stress, combat depression and promote an overall healthy and active life style.” (Wounded Warrior Program 2014) The program works with these warriors in trying to get them involved with sports that “…allow [the] warriors living with cognitive, emotional, and/or physical impairments to engage in local community-based activities to help overcome both visible and invisible injuries.” (Wounded Warrior Program 2014) The program also works with them by following a list, to keep them focus and motivated with the fitness activity they pick. In addition helping them having an easily assessable and reachable goal.

*** was founded with a mission to be an alternative to incarceration. The organization is a private, free-standing, non-profit agency which is accessible to all, regardless of economic, ethnic or religious backgrounds. Since 1971, ***. has provided a highly successful, comprehensive, continuum of behavioral health services. Our formal treatment services have helped over 20,000 young people and their families. Under the *** umbrella, broad arrays of evidence-based prevention services have also been implemented in the treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders. With their focus on identifying risk and protective factors, these programs have helped to educate and support

The patients used it this design were outpatients referred in 1992 through 1995 by professionals, Victim Support, police, ambulance, fire services, and even the subjects themselves. The criteria that had to be met in order for the subjects to be used in this study were as followed: PTSD for 6 or more months; age of 16 to 65 years; and absence of melancholia or suicidal intent, organic brain disease, past or present psychosis, antidepressant drug (unless the patient had been receiving a stable dose for 3 or more months); and diazepam in a dose of 10 mg/d or more or equivalent, ingestion of 30 or more alcohol units a week, and past exposure or cognitive therapy for PTSD (Marks et al., 1998). The therapist used a procedure manual and 4 treatment manuals which covered each session in each treatment condition. The sessions were audiotaped and each individual session lasted either 90 minutes or 105 minutes in Exposure Combined with Cognitive Restructuring (EC) therapy.

The first session would go through the traditional camp, meanwhile the second went through the TR Process Model. The participants included 37 females and 42 males. All the participants came from different socioeconomic backgrounds and areas of the United States. One of the few similarities between the participants was that they all had neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic disorder. The second group, in contrast to the first would go on to develop a relationship with the recreational therapist that would grow and allow the therapist to gather valuable information in relation to the camper’s overall social skills. The therapist in the second group would consistently be asking campers their general views towards an activity and providing different types of verbal persuasion. These were all examples of different forms for gathering social self-efficacy information that the therapist would