RT Team Reflection

When we observe the demographics of today¡¦s society, we notice that there is quite a change in the average age, as well as life expectancy. In 1993, the average life expectancy rose to an amazing 75.5 years, with women living an average of 79 years and men living an average of 72 years (Hawkins, 1996, p. 4). With this gradual rise in age, the idea of therapeutic recreation for the aging population has taken on a significant role. Therapeutic recreation uses recreation and leisure activities to meet the needs of people in order to improve their quality of life. These needs include social, physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual. The experience of engaging in recreation is perceived to have therapeutic benefits. Engaging in

To further understand Belbin Team Role Theory, I, together with four students formed a team and simulated as being authorized by the Songjiang Government Bureau to investigate into the current situation and the prospect of the higher education industry in Songjiang District. Through unremitting team efforts, we successfully demonstrated our findings and recommended several ideas via a formal presentation. Reviewing the three-months-long process of cooperation, I really found this experience of learning meaningful and fruitful. This reflective essay is a conclusion of my sympathetic introspection of the

Recreation is something that not only gives us pleasure, but also helps to renew or recreate the mind and body.

As you will note from my CV, I hold a First Class BA Honours Degree in Childhood and Family Studies and Education Studies. Whilst the majority of the modules I studied were based around developing my knowledge of working with children and families, some modules were focused on my professional and ethical practice.

It has been brought to the attention of our new Recreational Therapist staff at this facility, that there are not enough programs or accessible information pertaining to leisure resources for our current consumers who are being discharged from the facility. The specific issue we would like to address are solutions for our clients who struggle with PTSD. As an RT our job is to develop a treatment plan/service designed to restore, remediate, recreate, and rehabilitate an individual’s functional abilities and independence. To promote health and wellness as well as reduce or eliminate the barriers to participation in activities and life situations are the major goals as RTs to decrease consumer dependency. As a Recreational Therapist, providing clients with leisure- education is important so patients can be knowledgeable of what resources are available to them (Carter, M., & Van Andel, G. (2011). Without proper local environmental, leisure

Everyday so many people are conflicted with injuries that may or may not change their life and find themselves in need of someone to help them to get back on their feet. Recreational therapists are that someone who will be a shoulder for anyone to lean on that needs a little extra support, both figuratively and literally. Every day Recreational therapists are working hard to help people get their life back on track. The mental drive to help people is a big part of what makes this job so incredibly appealing. Recreational therapists must be supportive and patient and kind in order for the treatments to be effective in keeping the patients' happy and feeling taken care of. Being a go getter is such a big part of being

A person’s beliefs and general outlook, which act like filters on the information they receive, is called A. attitude. B. efficiency. C. motivation. D. consideration.

Kye wants to help the clients know how important exercise is in relation to mental health and to help them rediscover what they’ve lost or what they’re passionate about, whether it be sports or something else. He’s hopeful that sober sports lead to a reduction in stigma and isolation as well as giving them

The world is becoming a rapidly changing place in terms of population growth, cultural values, and intertwined beliefs not only in the United States, but also on an international scale. According to Terry Robertson and Terry Long, authors of Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation, “significant changes in culture and interdependent belief systems are happening all around us. These cultural changes are occurring worldwide,” (2008, p. 270). With these rapidly occurring global changes, Recreational Therapy as a profession needs to be changing along with this new global society. As professionals, recreational therapists need to be able to be flexible and “meet many roles,” while on the job (Long, Robertson, 2008, p. 273). This is why the future of Recreational Therapy will not only grow in clinical settings, but on a community basis as well.

Teamwork is the joint action by a group to complete a given task. This was displayed by group 20 as each member contributed their individual knowledge and skills towards the team as well as the course objective.

In this essay I am going to reflect on my experience working as part of a team and the preparation on an oral presentation I had to do in class with people from different courses, as part of the Foundations for Practice in Health and Social Care module. Reflection is educational and is used as a means of self-knowledge and to develop using a process of feeling and learning by thinking about what happened and what could have been done differently. (Rolfe, 2011, p.8-12) I will be using the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle to do this. In this model there are 6 different stages to look at to help structure reflection, the description of the event, your feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and an action plan. There is more than one model

Recreation Therapy uses a TR process to provide therapeutic recreation (TR) services to a variety of populations to achieve desired TR outcomes. (Kinney, 2004) However, how the Certified Recreation Therapy Specialist (CTRS) uses the TR process may differ based on the client population, available resources, interdisciplinary approach, and the facility’s mandate. This paper will examine how a TR approaches differs depending on the different population being served to achieve the desired

The therapeutic recreation process is a systematic method of planning and providing services for individuals with disabilities. The process is based on a systems theory approach. The system is designed for a guide for a well-defined, goal-oriented purpose to the activity or program being provided. It involves four phases: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Use of the therapeutic recreation process is not dependent on location, but on systematic and consistent use of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating services for people with disabilities. The process is applied in settings like hospitals, long-term facilities and useful in leisure education and recreation participation settings, like park and recreation

I am the second team member. On my part, I am a senior instructor analyst with

Since the spring of my sophomore year, I have been tasked with leading a true motley crew. By others this crew is called the Edina Rugby Club; however, I think of each and every one one of these young men as brothers. Without the sport of rugby, I would not have had the great fortune of meeting so many teammates of different distinctive personalities, backgrounds and ethnicity. There are kids from the high school band to the math club to the varsity football team who make up this crew. Given the responsibility to lead these young men, I have grown as a teammate and also as a human being. I have developed the ability to respect everyone, regardless of who they are, where they are from, and what they believe in. I learn from these young men and let them teach me different things about each of their cultures that without rugby I might never have learned. When I consider each teammate, despite different ethnicities and backgrounds, I see that they are no different than me. I have learned to respect people not for where they come from or what they believe in, but for who they are and how they conduct themselves as a young man. With that being said, I still have the utmost respect for each individual's personal beliefs and history. However, as a leader I feel that if we can get by the stereotypical norms of categorizing people we will find ourselves not only having greater success as leaders but as a society as a whole. Ultimately, those who lead are responsible for teaching the