Massage Therapy
This is the main job of a massage therapist: to rub and move these "soft" parts of the body to help someone relax.
What are muscles?
Recreational therapists use fun activities like sports, crafts, or these types of "trips" to help people get better.
What are field trips?
This type of therapist uses painting, drawing, and sculpting to help people express their feelings.
What is an Art Therapist?
In this type of therapy, the therapist looks at how a person moves their body to understand how they are feeling.
What is Dance/Movement Therapy?
Which therapy would be best for a patient who loves playing the guitar to help them recover from an injury?
What is Music Therapy?
True or False: Most massage therapists work for themselves as their own boss (independent practitioners).
What is True? (72% do)
To become a Recreational Therapist, you need to graduate from college with this 4-year degree.
What is a Bachelor’s degree?
To get into a Music Therapy college program, you don't just write an essay—you usually have to perform one of these to show you can play an instrument.
What is an audition?
Like Art Therapy, you must have this advanced degree to become a Dance Therapist.
What is a Master’s degree?
Which therapy would a hospital use to help a patient learn how to use a wheelchair by playing adaptive basketball?
What is Recreational Therapy?
To get a license to work, a student usually needs to finish a program that lasts about this many hours.
What is 500 to 1,000 hours?
This branch of the government, which helps military veterans, is one of the biggest employers for RTs.
What is the VA (Veterans Administration)?
While Music Therapists only need a 4-year degree, Art Therapists are required to get this higher level of degree (usually 6 years total).
What is a Master’s degree?
Dance therapists don't just dance; they help people improve their "well-being," which includes their body, their mind, and this "S" word: how they act with others.
What is Social well-being?
Which therapy focuses specifically on kneading and pressing muscles to reduce stress?
What is Massage Therapy?
Massage therapists spend a lot of time on their feet, which can lead to this feeling of being very tired at the end of the day.
What is fatigue?
RTs often help people who are struggling with this, such as PTSD or depression.
What is mental health?
Art and Music therapy are helpful because they combine creative skills with this "P" word: the study of how the human mind works.
What is Psychology?
Before they can work completely on their own in private practice, a Dance Therapist must earn this "Board" title.
What is Board-Certified (BC-DMT)?
If a patient is too shy to talk, which therapy lets them use a paintbrush to show their emotions?
What is Art Therapy?
If a massage therapist wants the highest "Board Certified" title, they have to pass a check to make sure they don't have a record of doing anything illegal.
What is a criminal background check?
This "C" word describes the official certificate most hospitals want an RT to have before hiring them.
What is Certification (CTRS)?
Music therapy students have to complete a long period of "learning on the job" called this, which lasts about 1,200 hours.
What is an internship?
To reach the highest level of certification, a therapist needs to have at least this many years of paid work experience.
What is two years?
Which of these fields was started specifically to help soldiers coming home from World War II?
What is Recreational Therapy?