Practices Model

Question: Write an essay on Practices Model. Answer: Introduction Practices models are helpful to offer a better framework in order to describe visualise and examine the interrelationship of the key elements of "professional practice." Although all of the models have some limitations, each is developed based on philosophies, which help to describe the scope and nature of the service, therapist interaction and the nature of the client (Austin, 2013). This report is aimed to find out the description and rationale of the therapeutic recreation (TR) and the result of its implementation in a community. Background setting The TR model or Therapeutic Recreation model was introduced in 1995 by Van Andel, Carter and Rob. Often this model is paired with TR Service Outcome Model, which in turn is helpful to increase the merit and worthiness of the TR Services. This service model was developed as a flexible so that this service model could be implemented in any therapeutic recreation setting. The researchers developed this model based on the assumption that leisure as a means as well as an end can coexist. According to Bksi et al. (2011), the aim of the researchers was tried to present intervention either leisure or non-leisure towards the clients. However, the outcome of this model should be "quality of life." According to Anderson Heyne, (2012), the ultimate goal of implementing this model is to empower the clients in order to achieve her or hi desired goals and helped them to experience a sense of mastery, satisfaction, well-being and fulfillment. Target Group The researchers Van Andel, Carter and Rob (1995) developed this model in order to help the patients who are suffering from illness or some particular disabilities. According to the researchers, Recreational Therapy offers services, which are based on individual's lifestyle and interests (Anderson Heyne, 2012). In this paper, the target group is the people of a small community in Queens. The services will be offered towards the children who are physically challenged and help them to achieve physical, social, cognitive and emotional goals. The Therapeutic Recreation will also be offered to those patients who need it most. Types of Services According to Snider et al., 2010, the services of Therapeutic Recreation should be offered based on the interests of individuals in the community. Therefore, before offering the Therapeutic Recreation services, it is important the company conducted a need assessment exercise, which proved as helpful to reveal the current position of the patients or the people who seek Therapeutic Recreation services. The types of services that could be offered may include Private Therapy, offering Friendship Club. In this context, it is important to mention that the focus group of this project should be small, which will be helpful for the service provider to help individual help seekers. Knowledge and professional skills of the service provider Offering Therapeutic Recreation services is not an easy task; therefore, it is important that the service providers should have specific knowledge as well as skills. In the community area, it is found that a large number of children need therapeutic interventions as they are suffering from mental illness as well as physical disabilities. Therefore, the service providers of the Therapeutic Recreation services need to be kind as well as polite towards the children. It is also found from the needs assessment that the children are afraid of unknown people and suffering from social stigma. In order to help these poor children, the professionals need to help them to be involved in socio-cultural programs and engage them in a creative program (Allsop, 2012). The professional should have patients to guide these children and extract the best out of them so that they can start believing in themselves. A friendship club could be formed to help them to be a part of something valuable and the pro fessionals should posses several creative skills to teach them. Service providers of TR There are different health care service providers who are offering Therapeutic Recreation Services in worldwide. One of the most renowned Therapeutic Recreation services is offered by Albert Health services, ATRA (American Therapeutic Recreation Association) and Spaulding Rehabilitation Network. According to Watson et al., (2010), the numbers of Therapeutic Recreation service providers in Australia are also increasing day by day. Summary of the investigation After investigating the progress of Therapeutic Recreation services in Worldwide, it can be said that Australia is keeping pace with the current improvement. The Therapeutic Recreation is a procedure, which utilizes functional intervention, education and helps the patients to meet their cognitive, emotional, physical and social goals (Kunstler Daly, 2010). It is found from the research study that the purpose of the Therapeutic Recreation (TR) is to enable an individual in order to achieve quality life as well as optimal health. The TR professionals work with the person with disabilities and improve the cognitive as well as physical activities (Stumbo Wardlaw, 2011). The TR professionals also help to foster greater involvement in the community and help the poor to strengthen their relationships and interpersonal skills. In this report, a small venture was taken to help the community members in Queens to provide a better life to their children. Although the results were satisfactory, it can be said that the Therapeutic Recreation services offered in this area need to be improved to help more people. Conclusion Offering Therapeutic Recreation services is not an easy task. From the research studies, it is found that the Therapeutic Recreation service providers need to recruit employees who are especially trained to take care of the patients who seek Therapeutic Recreation services. It is recognised that the service seekers are often very delicate and sensitive since they are mentally ill or suffering from physical challenges. Therefore, the service providers need to be very careful and should have a proper knowledge about their patient. Reference Allsop, J. (2012).Assessing the social effects of a therapeutic recreation summer camp for adolescents with chronic illness(Doctoral dissertation, The University of Utah). Anderson, L., Heyne, L. A. (2012).Therapeutic recreation practice: A strengths approach. Venture Pub.. Anderson, L. S., Heyne, L. A. (2012). 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