Meanings of therapeutic recreation: professionals’ perspectives

Genoe, M. Rebecca; Cripps, Douglas G.; Park, Kathy; Nelson, Sherri; Ostryzniuk, Linda; Boser, Donna

doi:10.1080/14927713.2021.1872411

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“…Therapeutic recreation can be defined as an approach encompassing the planned and purposeful utilization and enhancement of leisure time activities. This approach aims to maximize individuals' overall health status, well-being, and quality of life (Genoe et al, 2021). Therapeutic recreation practices conducted at camps, particularly on children, have shown potential in enhancing self-esteem, illness awareness, emotional well-being, illness adaptation, and symptom control (Walker & Pearman, 2009).…”

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Therapeutic Recreation Support Practice: Children Saving Dormitory Camps

Ekinci,

Gürbüz,

Sarol

2024

International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences

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Therapeutic recreation is a process that enables individuals with physical, cognitive, emotional, and social limitations to increase their skills, knowledge, and behaviors through participation in recreational activities to support their development. This process offers opportunities to participate in recreational activities and is seen as an area that makes the lives of children exposed to difficulties and limitations meaningful. In this direction, it aims to examine the institutional structure of the Children’s Saving Dormitory Camps (CSDC), which is an exemplary application related to the inclusion of children living on the streets in life in the historical process, and to reveal the content of therapeutic recreation practices in organized nature camps. In this study, the document analysis technique, a qualitative research data collection method, was used. The data in this study were obtained through text-based documents, such as state archives, newspapers, and a comprehensive literature review. Within the framework of the findings, the CSDC, which was established in 1933, aimed to help children living on the streets adapt to social life and socialize by implementing an education system that would help them become useful individuals for society. In this context, vocational and academic training, physical activities, and nature camps were organized for the children. The camps organized within the framework of CSDC included therapeutic recreation practices consisting of various physical activities such as swimming, hiking, and camping to support the rehabilitation process of children living on the streets. As a result, the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children living on the streets is supported through camps, physical activities, and therapeutic recreation practices consisting of various games.

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Therapeutic Recreation Support Practice: Children Saving Dormitory Camps

Ekinci,

Gürbüz,

Sarol

2024

International Journal of Disabilities Sports and Health Sciences

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“…Activity and social engagement are strong contributors to quality of life and flourishing for residents in long-term care [11][12][13]. A qualified activity professional is the one who knows residents' history, respects their needs, and enables their potential and dreams to be recognized [14].…”

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Role of Activity Professionals in Applying APIE Model to Enhance Residents’ Activity and Engagement in Long-Term Care Settings

Li¹,

Brune²,

Keller³

et al. 2023

OBM Geriatr

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Residents’ activity is a strong contributor to the quality of life in long-term care facilities. Hence, activity professionals have an essential role to play in enhancing residents’ activity engagement. Professional practice model for activity professionals includes Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (APIE model). Although activity professionals have made advances in demonstrating their value, few studies have focused on the APIE model for activity professionals in long-term care facilities. A survey was conducted to help understand the role of activity professionals in using APIE in long-term care. Questionnaires were completed by 195 activity professionals working as activity directors and activity staff in long-term care settings. The major factors studied were job background, certification, and the performance of activity professionals using the APIE model. Findings showed that 11.8% of the activity professionals had a high school education, 12.3% had no certification, and 9.2% of them had unrelated certifications. When examining the APIE model, we found that activity professionals used person-centered approaches when they assessed residents` needs and wants, planned and implemented the activities, but lacked evaluation when measuring the outcomes; 79.5% of the participants were not tracking the number of minutes residents spent on activities; and 72.8% of the respondents did not measure the impact of resident engagement on clinical outcomes such as falls, depression, cognition, and medication use. Lack of professional training and the application meaningful evaluation related to the impact of activities with residents by activity professionals may challenge administrators’ capacity of estimating the need, value, and role of activity professionals within long-term care facilities. The study advocates for applying the APIE process to the delivery of activities and evaluation of the benefits of residents` activity and engagement.

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“…Mille considers the absence of an appropriate epistemological reflection on the therapeutic nature of activities related to the so-called “art therapy” as a matter that makes it difficult to explain why these activities have produced a therapeutic effect (Mille et al ., 2015 ). Genoe, by virtue of a careful epistemological reflection on the use of the term “therapeutic” in reference to “recreational therapy,” underline the urgency of a paradigm shift (Genoe et al ., 2021 ). According to the authors, the use of the term “therapy” would bring with it a vision, borrowed from the medical model, of intervention as “repairing the person” and not as “promoting social interactions,” as should be the case in a therapy of the “psyche” (Genoe et al ., 2021 ).…”

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“…Genoe, by virtue of a careful epistemological reflection on the use of the term “therapeutic” in reference to “recreational therapy,” underline the urgency of a paradigm shift (Genoe et al ., 2021 ). According to the authors, the use of the term “therapy” would bring with it a vision, borrowed from the medical model, of intervention as “repairing the person” and not as “promoting social interactions,” as should be the case in a therapy of the “psyche” (Genoe et al ., 2021 ). Maratos’ review of music therapy studies is consistent with our argument.…”

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What is <em>therapeutic</em>? Analysis of the narratives available on Italian Addiction Rehab Centres’ Sites to present the therapeutic programme

Faccio

Aquili

Rocelli

2022

RES PSYCHOTHER-PSYCH

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In recent years, the use of the adjective “therapeutic” has expanded to encompass a great variety of experiences, blurring the line between what is effectively therapeutic and what is not. Proceeding from the idea that a word’s meaning is linked to its use in a particular linguistic game, we will analyse the etymons “therapy” and “psychotherapy” and the change in their meanings over time. This background will guide us in the qualitative analysis of the so-called “therapeutic activities” available on the websites of 14 Italian therapeutic communities for treating addiction. Four main master narratives emerge from our investigation. These are characterised by biomedical assumptions, pedagogical principles, religious precepts, and moral values, respectively. Activities are considered therapeutic per se rather than based on theoretical assumptions regarding change. In the light of our results, the adjective “therapeutic” has become a domain of common sense, which poses the threat of undue reification of the linguistic game that expresses it.

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Meanings of therapeutic recreation: professionals’ perspectives

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Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Therapeutic Recreation Support Practice: Children Saving Dormitory Camps

Therapeutic Recreation Support Practice: Children Saving Dormitory Camps

Role of Activity Professionals in Applying APIE Model to Enhance Residents’ Activity and Engagement in Long-Term Care Settings

What is <em>therapeutic</em>? Analysis of the narratives available on Italian Addiction Rehab Centres’ Sites to present the therapeutic programme

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