Curriculum
RT curriculum provides what for students?
Provide students with evidence-based material, credit hours, internship requirements, and resources about the field.
Who accredits our Recreational Therapy program here at Slippery Rock University?
Who is CARTE (committee on Accreditation for Recreational Therapy Education)
Without academic oversight, RT lacks this is degree qualifications
What is standardization?
What are some websites you can use to get information on these subjects?
What is the NCTRC website & the ATRA website.
Academic programs in Therapeutic Recreation or Recreational Therapy emphasize course work in?
What is the physical, biological, and behavioral sciences and recreation and leisure theory
What is accreditation for academic programs?
Is a way to evaluate and judge a universities programs compliance with professionally established standards designed to ensure that students are prepared for their future career.
This has proven to be a step in the right direction in terms of RT educational requirements
What is the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC)?
Approximately this many colleges/universities in the United States have a Recreational Therapy program
What is approximately 100?
What are some examples of supportive courses in RT curriculum?
What is Psychology (Introduction to psychology, Developmental psychology, & Abnormal Psychology); Sociology (Human Diversity & Intercultural Communication; Natural Science (Anat. & Phys).
When was CARTE established?
When is 2010 (established)
When is 2013 (established a contract with ATRA)
RT needs to do this to become as recognized as other professions
What is advocate its role in healthcare and stress its vital services?
In what year did the two important studies jump start the analysis of TR curriculum?
1969
How have RT curriculum change within the recent decade?
Increase in RT credit hours increased, the length of internships has increased, the number of supportive courses required has decreased, and graduation rates have increased.
What was the previously popular accreditation program before CARTE?
What is COAPRT (Council on Accreditation for Parks, Recreation, Tourism, and Related Profession)
What is being seen as an inferior service or becoming an add-on service?
What does CARTE stand for?
What is the Committee on Accreditation of Recreational Therapy Education.
What issues arise due to the lack of standard within RT curricula in BS programs?
Increase in a variation of care provided in practice.
Why was CARTE established?
To respond to the void in health-affiliated accreditation of the profession.
Everyone graduating as an RT should guarantee these
What is all possess the same competencies?
What ancient civilizations used recreation as a form of therapy?
What is ancient Chinese, Egyptian, Persian, and Greek cultures.