Recreational Therapy Case Study

The documentary covers the support the program supplies through the various exercises, counseling sessions, classes and work opportunities. The program offers each of these benefits at different phases. The documentary presents each participant in a way that it is difficult not to find some way to relate and even care for them or their sense of purpose.

The objective of this work is to examine Texas state laws relating to the counselor certification licensure process. Laws related to school counseling, mental health counseling, addictions counseling and marital family therapy are also be examined.

Through standardized testing, the Commission is able to set a benchmark for professionals and monitor the abilities of those who treat addictions (NAADAC, 2013). It is extremely important to focus on the individual counselor to determine the current knowledge and competence at the national level. In addition, the process was created to establish, measure, and monitor the requirements for knowledge in the profession while providing assistance to identify quality counselors who have met the national competency standards. As one can see the certification, professional licensing, and credentialing of substance abuse professionals are important to ensure quality service is received by the client, counselor, and service provider

In this paper it will discuss the requirements for one state and that state is Ohio. Ohio is one of the first states to license professional counselors. Their licensing requirements are stringent and they take pride in who they license. This paper will discuss the tiers of licensing a professional counselor will go through. From being a counselor to being a supervisor of future counselors.

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.

Therapeutic Intervention: Help the client to identify areas of his life that needs modification in order to restore balance. Aid Cameron with utilizing the results from the Strong assessment in order to pursue career change and develop an action plan to achieve his choices.

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

This counselor was able to collect information from Jared's primary care doctor and therapist regarding his disabilities. The information collected from his treating team was used to assist with determining his eligibility for services.

In this essay I am going to look at the importance and purpose of the initial consultation between the client and the therapist and what happens during this preliminary session. I will also cover the ethical definitions that will need to be explored and established, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of both the client and therapist.

Licensure for recreational therapy is a major issue for the profession because not every state has licensure laws in place. There are currently only 4 states that have licensure laws in place: New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Utah while several other states including Pennsylvania are trying to obtain licensure for recreational therapy. Licensure is an issue for the recreational therapy profession since there isn’t a consistent decision throughout the entire profession on whether or not to have licensure laws in place. Licensure helps protect the consumers that use recreational therapy practice and could help make the general public more aware of what recreational therapy is.

Although professional standards were promoted throughout the 20th century in a wide range of settings (Centore & Milacci, 2008), it has only within the last quarter century or so that the counseling profession established a formal entity called the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) in 1981 for this purpose (Adams, 2006). A year later, the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. and Affiliates (NBCC) was established in 1982 to provide accreditation standards for counselor education as well as a method of assessing educational knowledge (Adams, 2006). In this regard, Juhnke (2009) reports that, "The NBCC was established through the American Counseling Association (ACA) in 1982. The reason for NBCC's original existence

I visited the Optim Orthopedics in Savannah, Georgia. This facility specializes occupational, physical and hand therapy. I want to pursue a career in Sport Medicine but because of the physician not being in, I interview a Physical Therapist. Stacy McKenzie works as a PRN at the Savannah and Pooler facilities. Stacy knew at the age of 12 that therapy was her passion. She attended Armstrong State University for six years where she obtain her undergraduate and graduate degree. Since she only has her master degree, the only license she needed was the PT license. She stated her workday is typical busy. They see patients every 45 minutes each day. The patients range from four year olds to elderly patients. What she enjoy about working is meeting

On September 8th, 2015, I first began interning for Dr. Dawn Cox and her staff of experienced Physical Therapists at PRANA Functional Manual Therapy in Lancaster, PA as a Physical Therapy Aide. Intermittently, on the first day of my internship, I would ask the therapists “Why choose Physical Therapy as a profession?” One of the Physical Therapists conveyed that aside from the substantial benefits a job provides, it was the intangible materials that gave the profession a meaning. As a student exploring the field of Physical Therapy, I have infallibly witnessed professionalism at PRANA and other Physical Therapy facilities through the therapists’ altruism towards patients -without violating ethical practices as professionals; their apposite use of communication with each individual at the workplace; and their sense of accountability when things go unforeseen.

My topic for this essay is physical therapy. I choose this career because my mother sustained a back injury for a while and she was in so much pain. I felt so helpless and desperately wants to do something to help my mother. Luckily, there is a specialist who can help my mom with her back injury. I realized that my mom isn’t only one in this world who suffered the injuries and it shifted my interests in technology to physical therapy. Although I want to be a physical therapist, I have a lot of questions for this career. I want to know what kind of education I have to take and work environment for this career. Also, I am wondering how can they deal with the patients with the PTSD. Before I start to research this career, I thought it was a

Many social and leisure activities occur without documentation or formal recognition of the activities. Objective or procedural activities may be more reimbursable compared to socioemotional aspects of therapy, such as leisure and social participation. They may be valued more as a component of intervention and many times occur without reimbursement (Smallfield & Karges,