DESCRIPTION OF DIVERSIONAL THERAPIST

Therapeutic recreation is also known as diversional therapy, diversional therapy usually refers to a person-centered practice. diversional recreation therapy Australia, (2018), suggests that ‘ leisure and recreational experience are the right to all individual’. As a diversional therapist, it is their responsibility to promote emotional and physical rehabilitation through recreational activities to improve the client’s wellbeing and living lifestyle.  The main role of the diversional therapist is the design activities that support the individual’s spiritual, social, emotional and physical needs and well- beings. The diversional therapist works in a different healthcare setting such as aged care, mental health,  rehabilitation, brain injury, and disability facilitates.

Diversional recreation  therapy  Australia, (2018), diversional and recreation therapy Australia, Retrieved from http://diversionaltherapy.org.au/

The video below describes therapeutic recreation and how they work together to achieve their goals to help an individual with recreation activity to physical and emotional support the individual.