2012 Utah Code
Title 58 - Occupations and Professions
Article 40 - Recreational Therapy Practice Act
Section 102 - Definitions.

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.

(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.

(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 and Amended by Chapter 82, 2012 General Session