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Recreational Therapist, Behavioral Health
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- Recreational therapists help people reduce depression, stress, and anxiety; recover basic physical and mental abilities; build confidence; and socialize effectively.
- Develops the individualized recreational therapy treatment plan that includes patient preferences, short term, long term and/or discharge related functional outcome goals and the treatment interventions to be used to achieve treatment goals and outcomes.
- Develops a recreational therapy discharge plan, in collaboration with the patient, family, significant others, supervising physician and team members, when maximum improvement in recreational therapy treatment interventions is reached, additional treatment or aftercare is needed.
- Skill and ability in designing, planning and implementing evidence-based treatment interventions to restore, remediate or rehabilitate specific aspects of physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning in order to improve functioning and independence in life activities and to reduce limitations to activity participation caused by medical, psychiatric, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, sensory impairments or other disabling conditions.
- SPECIALIZED KNOW HOW & REQUIREMENTS:Bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation, or related field like exercise physiology, recreation or leisure activities required.
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