Section 102 - Definitions.

UT Code § 58-40-102 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) "Approved" means approval by the division in collaboration with the board when used to refer to a licensing requirement.

(2) (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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(6) (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.

(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.

(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.