Section 58-40-102 - DefinitionsIn 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.(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: (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.(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 from § 58-40-2 and amended by Chapter 82, 2012 General Session ,§ 2, eff. 5/8/2012.Amended by Chapter 11, 2004 General SessionAffected by 63I-1-258 on 7/1/2023