RT Institute: Play: How Do We Create Active Strategies to Improve Our Clinical Care Skills?
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PST
Room: Meeting Rooms 9-11
Earn 0.15 CEUs
Session Description: Play is essential for brain development and can help improve function, structure, and plasticity. Play and work share creativity to transform our clinical care skills. Adopt strategies to interpret situations in our work environment to reduce stress levels. Identify evidence-based practice focused on play to enhance your practice.
Job Task Domains:
1. Job Task Area 1.02. Maintain Professional Competency: Understand trends in RT/TR practice (e.g., evidence-based practice, etc.).
2. Job Task Area 1.02. Maintain Professional Competency: Apply concepts of cultural competence/intelligence (e.g., implicit bias, cultural differences, diversity and inclusion, etc.).
This session is part of the Recreation Therapy "RT" Institute which is a ticketed event.
Learning Objectives:
Develop an understanding of three theories of adulthood play in behavioral, social science, and social psychology.
Create a tool kit of clinical strategies to increase patient outcomes while contributing to personal care.
Identify the functions of the brain that effects our social skills and emotions when
engaging in work and play.
