58-40-102. Definitions.
In addition to the definitions in Section, 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) "Assessment" means: 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 interpreting and analyzing collected data to identify and determine a course of action for recreational therapy services for a patient. "Assessment" includes: a record review; the implementation of standardized and non-standardized instruments, tests, and measurements; and 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) "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. "Recreational therapy services" include: assessing a person's need for recreational therapy treatment or intervention; developing an individualized treatment or intervention plan that identifies goals, objectives, and treatment strategies for a person; implementing the individualized treatment or intervention plan; documenting a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan, including documenting the overall outcome of the person's treatment; regularly evaluating a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan and modifying the plan when appropriate; in collaboration with a person, the person's family, or other team members, developing a discharge or transition plan for the person; 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 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, which is composed for each patient by a person licensed under this chapter as a master therapeutic recreation specialist or a therapeutic recreation specialist. 58-40-602
(8) "Unlawful conduct" is as defined in Sectionsand. 58-1-501 58-40-501
(9) "Unprofessional conduct" is as defined in Sectionsand. 58-1-501 58-40-502