A program that prepares individuals to plan, organize, and direct recreational activities designed to promote health and well-being for patients who are physically, mentally, or emotionally disabled. Includes instruction in the foundations of therapeutic recreation, leisure education and counseling, program planning, therapeutic recreational modalities, basic anatomy and physiology, psychology, medical terminology, human growth and development, patient observation and evaluation, special needs populations, and professional standards and ethics.
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Top 3
New York
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Utica College
Utica, NY | 11
(2.3%) |  |  | |
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| | Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY | 7
(0.5%) |  | | |
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| | CUNY Lehman College
Bronx, NY | 3
(0.2%) |  |  | |
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