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TRT Exam Study Guide.
Medical or clinical - answer✔✔Healthcare settings or agencies that provide acute treatment or
rehabilitation services
Long-term care - answer✔✔Health care that provides ongoing basic services to harmonically Ill
individuals who are institutionalized for more than 30 days
Intervention - answer✔✔An action taken by a professional person in corporation with a given
client to achieve a pre-determined and mutually agreed-upon treatment goal
Humanistic - answer✔✔An Outlook that stresses the importance of a human development
improvement process of human interaction and the protection and restoration of the natural
environment
Holistic Health - answer✔✔An approach to health that intrigues The Body Mind and Spirit
Health status - answer✔✔The relevant level of a physical mental emotional social and spiritual
health as determined by various assignment tools.
Health - answer✔✔A state of complete physical mental social and physiological and spiritual
well-being
Functional capacity - answer✔✔The potential ability to perform a specific function in each of
the five domains of health status
Experiential - answer✔✔A personal interaction with an activity or one's environment
Education - answer✔✔The instructions designed to develop a specific skill or knowledge
Diagnosis / needs assessments - answer✔✔The process of identifying clients strengths and
limitations which can be used to formulate treatment and program plans
Community-based treatment - answer✔✔Healthcare services that are delivered in local facilities
and agencies such as School senior centers and clients home
Custodial - answer✔✔A type of care that only meets basic needs of patients / client
Milieu - answer✔✔An approach that recognizes the in client's environment or surroundings
integral aspects of therapy
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Optimal Wellness - answer✔✔The highest level of well-being that is usually associated with the
effective development and integration of the 5 dimensions of Health mental physical emotional
spiritual and social
Outcomes - answer✔✔The product or result of the treatment or intervention
Prevention or health promotion - answer✔✔Services or activities that emphasize positive
attitudes and behaviours towards personal health
Quality of life - answer✔✔subjective assignment of physiological well-being that is
characterized by feelings of satisfaction contentment joy and self-determination
Recreation - answer✔✔A positive physiological response to a meeting for personal experience
Therapeutic recreation - answer✔✔A holistic process that purposely uses Recreations and
experimental interventions to bring about a change either social emotional intellectual call
physical or spiritual in an effort to maintain and improve health status function capability and
overall quality of life
Wellness - answer✔✔A state of complete in integration of Body Mind and Spirit
American Therapeutic Recreational Association. - ATRA - - answer✔✔And entity founded in
1984 as an independent professional therapeutic recreation organization that emphasizes the role
of recreational therapy in the healthcare setting
American with Disability Act - ADA- - answer✔✔A law passed in 1990 that provides persons
with disabilities equal access to programs services and Facilities
Centers for medic care and Medicaid services - CMS - - answer✔✔The federal health-care
reality agency that admits standards of care for Medicare and Medicaid programs formalities
called Health Care financing Administration. - HCFA-
Joint Commission on Accreditation of healthcare Organizations. - JCAHO - - answer✔✔One of
the several voluntary health care Regulatory Agencies that established and monitor standards of
health care for hospitals and Community agencies
International therapeutic recreation Society -NTRS- - answer✔✔A professional therapeutic
recreation organized founded in 1996 as a branch of the national Recreation and park
Association(Dissolved as a branch in 2010 now a network within an NRPA)
National Council for therapeutic Rec certification -NCTRC- - answer✔✔The National
Organization that coordinates and administers a voluntary credentialing mean programs for
therapeutic recreation professionals
Acceptance - answer✔✔Having a positive regard for another person with out a judgmental
attitude
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Active responsive listening - answer✔✔The process of listening to and understanding both
verbal and nonverbal communication for another person and communicating such understanding
to that person
Attending - answer✔✔Verbal and or nonverbal behaviors that indicate the helper is responding
to the clients need
AttitudeTherapy - answer✔✔Form of behavior modification used with RO involving measured
responses to specific clients behaviors
Autonomy - answer✔✔The client's ability to express his or her own freedom to make choices
Brief treatment - answer✔✔Timeline to treatment that typically emphasizes crisis Intervention
techniques with a goal of stabilizing and discharging patients as quickly as possible
Challenging - answer✔✔Communication skills in which a genuineness and honesty are
employed to point out what is occurring and what the helper infers from the client's feelings
Empathy - answer✔✔The ability to put one's self in the place of another and see the world
through the other person's eyes
Empower - answer✔✔Creating the proper physiological conditions that permit and encourage
personal growth and autonomy in others
Facilitation skills - answer✔✔The interpersonal skills that are used to develop meaningful
relationships with others
Group treatment - answer✔✔Care that is provided by one or more professionals to give a group
of clients who also actively participate in helping fellow group members
Helper - answer✔✔A person who interacts with another human being in such a way to promote
Mutual growth
Helping relationships - answer✔✔Positive supportive relationships that facilitate growth in both
the client and the helper
Humor therapy - answer✔✔An intervention that simulates laughter and promotes a positive State
of Mind
Informed consent - answer✔✔The agreement of a client to participate in a given treatment after
being told of all the other possible outcomes and risks
Informing - answer✔✔Providing objective and factual information
Interpersonal communication - answer✔✔The verbal non-verbal interactions between two or
more people
TRT Exam Study Guide.
Medical or clinical - answer✔✔Healthcare settings or agencies that provide acute treatment or
rehabilitation services
Long-term care - answer✔✔Health care that provides ongoing basic services to harmonically Ill
individuals who are institutionalized for more than 30 days
Intervention - answer✔✔An action taken by a professional person in corporation with a given
client to achieve a pre-determined and mutually agreed-upon treatment goal
Humanistic - answer✔✔An Outlook that stresses the importance of a human development
improvement process of human interaction and the protection and restoration of the natural
environment
Holistic Health - answer✔✔An approach to health that intrigues The Body Mind and Spirit
Health status - answer✔✔The relevant level of a physical mental emotional social and spiritual
health as determined by various assignment tools.
Health - answer✔✔A state of complete physical mental social and physiological and spiritual
well-being
Functional capacity - answer✔✔The potential ability to perform a specific function in each of
the five domains of health status
Experiential - answer✔✔A personal interaction with an activity or one's environment
Education - answer✔✔The instructions designed to develop a specific skill or knowledge
Diagnosis / needs assessments - answer✔✔The process of identifying clients strengths and
limitations which can be used to formulate treatment and program plans
Community-based treatment - answer✔✔Healthcare services that are delivered in local facilities
and agencies such as School senior centers and clients home
Custodial - answer✔✔A type of care that only meets basic needs of patients / client
Milieu - answer✔✔An approach that recognizes the in client's environment or surroundings
integral aspects of therapy
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Optimal Wellness - answer✔✔The highest level of well-being that is usually associated with the
effective development and integration of the 5 dimensions of Health mental physical emotional
spiritual and social
Outcomes - answer✔✔The product or result of the treatment or intervention
Prevention or health promotion - answer✔✔Services or activities that emphasize positive
attitudes and behaviours towards personal health
Quality of life - answer✔✔subjective assignment of physiological well-being that is
characterized by feelings of satisfaction contentment joy and self-determination
Recreation - answer✔✔A positive physiological response to a meeting for personal experience
Therapeutic recreation - answer✔✔A holistic process that purposely uses Recreations and
experimental interventions to bring about a change either social emotional intellectual call
physical or spiritual in an effort to maintain and improve health status function capability and
overall quality of life
Wellness - answer✔✔A state of complete in integration of Body Mind and Spirit
American Therapeutic Recreational Association. - ATRA - - answer✔✔And entity founded in
1984 as an independent professional therapeutic recreation organization that emphasizes the role
of recreational therapy in the healthcare setting
American with Disability Act - ADA- - answer✔✔A law passed in 1990 that provides persons
with disabilities equal access to programs services and Facilities
Centers for medic care and Medicaid services - CMS - - answer✔✔The federal health-care
reality agency that admits standards of care for Medicare and Medicaid programs formalities
called Health Care financing Administration. - HCFA-
Joint Commission on Accreditation of healthcare Organizations. - JCAHO - - answer✔✔One of
the several voluntary health care Regulatory Agencies that established and monitor standards of
health care for hospitals and Community agencies
International therapeutic recreation Society -NTRS- - answer✔✔A professional therapeutic
recreation organized founded in 1996 as a branch of the national Recreation and park
Association(Dissolved as a branch in 2010 now a network within an NRPA)
National Council for therapeutic Rec certification -NCTRC- - answer✔✔The National
Organization that coordinates and administers a voluntary credentialing mean programs for
therapeutic recreation professionals
Acceptance - answer✔✔Having a positive regard for another person with out a judgmental
attitude
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Active responsive listening - answer✔✔The process of listening to and understanding both
verbal and nonverbal communication for another person and communicating such understanding
to that person
Attending - answer✔✔Verbal and or nonverbal behaviors that indicate the helper is responding
to the clients need
AttitudeTherapy - answer✔✔Form of behavior modification used with RO involving measured
responses to specific clients behaviors
Autonomy - answer✔✔The client's ability to express his or her own freedom to make choices
Brief treatment - answer✔✔Timeline to treatment that typically emphasizes crisis Intervention
techniques with a goal of stabilizing and discharging patients as quickly as possible
Challenging - answer✔✔Communication skills in which a genuineness and honesty are
employed to point out what is occurring and what the helper infers from the client's feelings
Empathy - answer✔✔The ability to put one's self in the place of another and see the world
through the other person's eyes
Empower - answer✔✔Creating the proper physiological conditions that permit and encourage
personal growth and autonomy in others
Facilitation skills - answer✔✔The interpersonal skills that are used to develop meaningful
relationships with others
Group treatment - answer✔✔Care that is provided by one or more professionals to give a group
of clients who also actively participate in helping fellow group members
Helper - answer✔✔A person who interacts with another human being in such a way to promote
Mutual growth
Helping relationships - answer✔✔Positive supportive relationships that facilitate growth in both
the client and the helper
Humor therapy - answer✔✔An intervention that simulates laughter and promotes a positive State
of Mind
Informed consent - answer✔✔The agreement of a client to participate in a given treatment after
being told of all the other possible outcomes and risks
Informing - answer✔✔Providing objective and factual information
Interpersonal communication - answer✔✔The verbal non-verbal interactions between two or
more people
