Program

The tentative program is shown below. More details with dates and times of each session will be posted in January.

Day 1

Day 2

Concurrent Sessions

In no particular order. Day and time TBD.

• Evidence Based Practice in Therapeutic Recreation
• NCTRC Internship Standards
• Contrasting Perceived Barriers for Latinos with Disabilities in Maywood Park District
• Creating Your Self-Compassion Plan
• Students and Faculty Serving and Learning in our Community at the American Gold Star Manor 2.0: Present Status, successes and future efforts
• Nature Based Therapeutic Recreation Interventions
• Facilitating the Blind Maze
• Leaning into Resiliency during Seasons of Professional Overwhelm
• But They Might Die: Teaching TR students the value of working with older adults
• Home or God’s Waiting Room?: Purposeful therapeutic recreation interventions for frail older adults
• Compassion Fatigue: What's on your plate?
• Recreation Therapy Adaptive Equipment and Techniques
• ATRA Quality Internships Statement Manual and Training Update
• Changing the Narrative: How to Challenge Systemic Racism in Therapeutic Recreation
• Utilizing TR Concepts and Physical Activity in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Setting
• Racial Understanding: A Mandate for the Profession of Therapeutic Recreation
• Raccoon Circles: A framework for client-centered, wilderness-based therapeutic recreation intervention
• Resistance Exercise Training for Anxiety: An Evidence-based framework for implementation with groups in TR settings
• Rethinking Inclusion: The Value of adaptive recreation and the need for balance
• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) - Tapping in Recreational Therapy: Will it work for you?
• Gamification: Beyond Monopoly and Bingo
• Developing Professional Competence in Recreational Therapy: The international classification of functioning, disability and health
• Leisure Education for High Schoolers in Career and Life Skills Class
• Chair Chi: Seated Tai Chi for movement impaired populations
• Disability Simulations: Offensive or effective?
• Surfing the Technological Wave
• What Have You Done for Me Lately? How ATRA Empowers YOU!
• Therapy Groups Using Music & Movement
• Expressive Arts Therapy and Equine-Assisted Therapy: What are they and how can they be utilized in Therapeutic Recreation?
• NCTRC Internship Standards
• Breaking Barriers: How Recreational Therapy Complements the Transdisciplinary Approach in Brain Injury Rehab
• Using Animal-Assisted Interventions in Therapeutic Recreation
• Benefits of Reiki Services as Seen within the VA
• Strategies to Help the Recreational Therapist Cope with Indirect Exposure to Trauma
• Research Findings on “Measuring Camp Staff Personal Diabetes Knowledge and Attitudes at a Diabetes Camp” and Experiential Learning Opportunities for TR professionals that can be Accessed through Diabetes Camps
• Strategies to Help the Recreational Therapist Cope with Indirect Exposure to Trauma
• Using Time Slips to Facilitate Errorless Learning for Individuals with Memory Deficits