58-40-102. Definitions.

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In addition to the definitions in Section 58-1-102 , as used in this chapter:

(1)"Approved" means approval by the division in collaboration with the board when used to refer to a licensing requirement.

(a)"Assessment" means:

(i)a systematic collection of data to identify the strengths and limitations of a person's physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, spiritual, and leisure capabilities; and

(ii)interpreting and analyzing collected data to identify and determine a course of action for recreational therapy services for a patient.

(b)"Assessment" includes:

(i)a record review;

(ii)the implementation of standardized and non-standardized instruments, tests, and measurements; and

(iii)the skilled observation and interview of a person.

(3)"Board" means the Board of Recreational Therapy created in Section 58-40-201 .

(4)"Practice of recreational therapy" means to engage in the paid performance of providing recreational therapy services according to the therapeutic recreation process to a person with an emotional, social, intellectual, or physical pathology.

(5)"Recreational therapy" or "therapeutic recreation" means a person-centered process that uses recreation and psychoeducational activities as intervention tools to improve the physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual well-being of a person with an illness or a disability.

(a)"Recreational therapy services" means using recreation and psychoeducational activities as intervention tools to improve or maintain the physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual well-being of a person with an illness or a disability.

(b)"Recreational therapy services" include:

(i)assessing a person's need for recreational therapy treatment or intervention;

(ii)developing an individualized treatment or intervention plan that identifies goals, objectives, and treatment strategies for a person;

(iii)implementing the individualized treatment or intervention plan;

(iv)documenting a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan, including documenting the overall outcome of the person's treatment;

(v)regularly evaluating a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan and modifying the plan when appropriate;

(vi)in collaboration with a person, the person's family, or other team members, developing a discharge or transition plan for the person;

(vii)serving as a resource to help a person find recreation opportunities that will promote the person's physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual health and well-being; and

(viii)organizing and managing recreational services according to a written plan of operation as defined by rule of the division.

(7)"Treatment or intervention plan" means a written record containing the information required by Section 58-40-602 , which is composed for each patient by a person licensed under this chapter as a master therapeutic recreation specialist or a therapeutic recreation specialist.

(8)"Unlawful conduct" is as defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-40-501 .

(9)"Unprofessional conduct" is as defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-40-502 .

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 82 , 2012 General Session