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Soft Skills You Can Learn in Therapeutic Recreation

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  What is Therapeutic Recreation?    Therapeutic Recreation can be summarized as therapy that does not use traditional methods and utilizes the client's exposure and understanding of the world to achieve self-actualization.    What do Recreational Therapists do?   Although it may sound simple at first, Recreational Therapists must understand the client in order to understand who they are and know what previous treatments they have done before and why they have failed. They are commonly seen working side by side with other health care professionals including, but not limited to, hospitals, rehabilitation centres, schools, and correctional facilities.    The Goal of Therapeutic Recreation   As for the goal of Recreational Therapy, it is to create and maintain positive emotion and action in clients. This will enable them to take on increasingly challenging opportunities, improving themselves autonomously. – Carruthers and Hood, 2007 Our Therapeutic Recreational courses are an excellen

What a Professional Life-Coaching Career Looks Like

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  The role of a coach can means a lot of things. They are someone who instructs, trains, or teaches other people a skill and how to actively use this skill in their life. This is something that everyone can use, and we kind of coach each other throughout our lives in a lot of ways already. Sometimes you might have your friends coaching you on navigating your relationships, your parents might try to coach you while you are starting to look for your first job, and your teachers will be coaching you on how to start applying to get into school. Sometimes in life though, people need a more serious and committed person in that role to really help them get or stay on track of what they want to accomplish. This is where a professional life coach comes in.    A life coach is trained to help people hone their skills, personality, and goals, and can give people the tools to really be successful in life. Maybe this means helping them get organized or changing certain patterns and ways of thinking.