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Throughout my undergraduate degree, when people asked what I was studying and I replied "Therapeutic Recreation," the comments such as "Oh I need to go relax on the beach" or "I could sure use a vacation" were plenteous. Sadly, this is not necessarily what Therapeutic Recreation, or Recreation Therapy fully is. I don't go to the beach with clients all the time. In fact, I never have. Here is one picture I did take from the beach this year though. Wellington, NZ 2024 Simply put, Recreation Therapy (RT) is the purposeful use of any healthy leisure/recreation activity to improve quality of life, whether socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically, or spiritually. This may seem like, yes, this is going to the beach. However, there is more to it than that. This post will include more but will again only be some of what is the job of a Recreation Therapist. There will be more posts about what it looks like to be a Recreation Therapist. In my personal e...

 Hi all! My name is Cami. I am a Recreation Therapist, practicing since 2017. Recreation Therapy (RT) is the purposeful use of any healthy leisure/recreation activity to improve quality of life, whether socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically, or spiritually. RT is provided by educated and certified Recreation Therapists. The most common way to become a Recreation Therapist is to do a 4-year Bachelor Degree in Therapeutic Recreation and then take the National Certification exam to become a CTRS . That is also the route that I took. There are also Master and Doctorate programs for Therapeutic Recreation. (My Master degree is just Parks and Recreation Management.) Cami in Antelope Canyon Recreation Therapy can be used for all kinds of people in several settings. I have worked with children, adolescents, and adults. These clients have had a wide range of needs. They have had mental health and developmental disorders, physical disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, Alzheimer...