Category: Education
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Building Emotional Resilience
Individuals are taught to take care of their physical needs from a very young age. Children often understand that they need to wash their hands, brush their teeth and cover a wound to remain in good health. However, monitoring and caring for emotional/psychological injuries is something that is rarely taught, and these types of injuries…
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Benefits Of Creative Expression
Creative expression and creative play are staples in human development. This allows us to learn and grow physically, spiritually and emotionally. Creative expression allows for freedom and innovative thoughts. Focusing on creativity allows for relief of stress and anxiety. It can create a meditative state described as “flow”. This is when our mind is in…
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Therapeutic Recreation and Depression: A Meta-Analysis of Exercise Interventions
Written by Starr Caruthers, CTRS and Jennifer Chissus, TRS Individuals with depression may experience feelings of sadness, changes in appetite and/or weight, a change in sleep patterns, unusual psychomotor activity, fatigue, difficulty thinking, concentrating, and making decisions, have feelings of unexplained guilt and/or worthlessness, and thoughts of death or suicide.1 Some physiological theories of depression…
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Benefits of Playing Games in Recreational Therapy
Games can be used throughout an individuals entire life to promote and improve memory, problem solving skills, strategy, focus/concentration, social skills, decreasing impulsivity , relieving depression/anxiety, and diverting thoughts away from environmental stressors. Games can be utilized more extensively with individuals who have special needs. Moving pawns and picking up cards help to improve fine…
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Biofeedback in Recreation Therapy
Biofeedback is a technique that utilizes mindfulness of physiological functions and measures the effect of self-regulation techniques. Biofeedback monitoring could include; blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, and brain waves. Biofeedback can be used to treat multiple symptoms associated with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, muscle tension and other symptoms that coincide with physiological impairment. The…