Recreational Therapy at the University of Utah

Description: Recreational Therapy is a health and human service profession that uses activity-based interventions as a part of the systematic therapeutic recreation process that targets specific evidence-based outcomes. Individual and group counseling techniques are implemented through prescribed play, recreation, experiential activity and psycho education processes to improve the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual functioning and well-being of individuals with injury, illness and/or disability to enable a greater quality of life.
To learn more, visit www.health.utah.edu/parks-recreation-tourism/degrees/bachelors/therapeutic-recreation.php