Facilitating Client Change Through Therapeutic Recreation: Intervention Strategies to Support Well-Being eBook

We, as therapeutic recreation professionals, have a moral and ethical responsibility to do our very best on behalf of clients and to support their efforts to move toward greater well-being. The provision of best TR interventions and services relies on several elements. First, we must identify a purpose that is meaningful to clients along with corresponding, salient goals. Second, we must identify and implement a model of service that guides the attainment of the desired goals. Finally, we must implement theoretically and scientifically grounded interventions that effectively support clients in the development of their strengths, capacities and most valued life. 

Facilitating Client Change Through Therapeutic Recreation: Intervention Strategies to Support Well-Beingprovides TR students and practitioners with the knowledge and tools necessary to facilitate clients’ attainment of positive, meaningful, and empowering change. It articulates why the enhancement of well-being is a worthy and attainable goal of service, that the theoretical components of well-being that are highly amenable to change through therapeutic recreation psychoeducational interventions and leisure engagement, and how TR professionals can help clients recognize and navigate roadblocks to change. This book discusses the importance of the therapeutic alliance in the facilitation of positive client change and the centrality of therapist self-care to their effectiveness with clients. Finally, this book provides in-depth discussion of the elements of human behavior that can be modified to support client attainment of meaningful goals—including a focus on actions/behaviors, feelings, and thoughts. In each of the chapters that explore these elements of human behavior, theory and detailed, practical strategies and therapeutic interventions are woven together to create a framework for TR professionals. The text concludes with a presentation of a new holistic and integrated therapeutic approach that is individualized, contextualized, and grounded in evidence-based strategies.