Recreational Therapy and Mental Health

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with information regarding therapeutic recreation services to persons with mental illness, and substance abuse disorders, or individuals served in behavioral health treatment facilities. Course emphasizes mental health recovery, activities to facilitate change in different behavioral domains, therapeutic interventions for adults and children, treatment settings and services, and trends in recreation therapy program delivery. This course is taught largely at an undergraduate level. Graduate students will have additional course requirements/expectations. Prerequisite: PSY 204 , RTH 319 , RTH 352 ; RTH major/minor or CYC minor; junior standing. Offered Occasionally.