Recreation Therapist

Duties & Responsibilities:

Recreation therapists employ leisure activities to help patients with disabilities or illnesses. Through the use of games, sports, crafts and more, they maintain their patients' physical and emotional well-being. In doing this, they also help patients integrate into their community via group activities.

Salary: $43,180

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation
• recreation with a therapeutic concentration

Demand for this profession: Licensure required in some states; certification by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification is preferred by some employers

Reflection: Being a Recreation Therapist requires many attentive and patient work. It requires teaching the patients and helping them heal properly to be useful in their own home environment. Lots of these therapy works exercises both the  mind and body to grow much healthier and easier. Some therapy work includes exercise, coloring, crafts, games, etc. It would be very exciting to be able to be apart of the job description and take part in helping the patients. Very much similar to a sports therapeutic.