A Study to Determine the Continuing Professional Development Needs of Therapeutic Recreation Specialists Employed in Mental Health Settings

The problem of this study was to determine continuing professional development needs of therapeutic recreation specialists employed in residential psychiatric settings. The four subproblems were: (1) To identify and verify the actual tasks performed by therapeutic recreation personnel; (2) To identify and verify the functional skills needed to perform tasks; (3) To determine which skills can be identified as training needs; and (4) To determine if training needs are associated with importance of the skills, agency type, education level, and primary role.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Leisure Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Coffey, Fran

• Recreation

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8324530

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70933