Interventions
Populations Served
Assessment Tools
Programs & Modalities
Goals and Outcomes
100

This intervention uses gardening to achieve therapeutic goals.

What is Horticulture Therapy?

100

This population benefits from interventions like stress management and community reintegration to address emotional reactivity.

Who are veterans with PTSD?

100

This tool measures developmental progress in children ages 3-42 months.

What are Bayley’s Scales?

100

A LIFE Pittsburgh focus group designed to help participants reminisce about past events.

What is Remember When?

100

This is the primary goal of community reintegration interventions.

What is preparing individuals to return to meaningful roles in their community?

200

This therapy helps manage phantom pain by providing a visual representation of the missing limb.  

What is Mirror Therapy?

200

Recreational therapy interventions for this population focus on developmental milestones and social skills.

Who are children in pediatric rehabilitation?

200

This tool is used to estimate the percentage of body surface area affected by burns.

What is the Rules of Nine?

200

A program that helps children with chronic pain reintegrate into school and social activities.

What is Back in the Game?

200

This is a critical outcome for children in pediatric rehabilitation.

What are achieving developmental milestones?

300

This water-based therapy improves endurance, strength, and mobility.

What is Aquatic Therapy?

300

Treatment goals for this population include improving housing stability and employment readiness.

Who are individuals experiencing homelessness?

300

This assessment evaluates a person’s ability to perform daily activities independently.

What is the Functional Independence Measure (FIM)?

300

A volunteer program that decorates hospital rooms to create a healing environment for pediatric patients.

What is Dec My Room?

300

These are two goals for individuals experiencing homelessness in recreational therapy.

What are improving housing stability and employment readiness?

400

This intervention uses art or writing to help clients reduce anxiety and improve emotional expression.

What is creative expression?

400

Recreational therapy for this population often focuses on improving mobility, enhancing memory, and increasing social interaction.

Who are older adults?

400

This model highlights interconnected dimensions of wellness, such as physical, emotional, and social health.

What is the Wellness Wheel?

400

A Cleveland Clinic program that emphasizes developmental play, social interaction, and sensory stimulation for young children.

What is Play Group?

400

These are two potential treatment goals for veterans with PTSD.

What are stress management and community reintegration?

500

This intervention teaches clients about leisure opportunities to improve their quality of life.

What is Leisure Education?

500

This population benefits from interventions aimed at managing blood sugar and reducing stress.

Who are individuals with diabetes?

500

This checklist is used in pediatric rehabilitation to track developmental milestones and identify red flags.

What is the Developmental Checklist?

500

This Cleveland Clinic program uses a group setting to promote social interaction and turn-taking through musical activities for young children.

What is Toddler Music Group?

500

This is a common goal of recreational therapy for individuals with spinal cord injuries.

What is community reintegration or improving physical function?