Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Recreation therapists work with patients to keep them from becoming depressed with themselves and life in general.  They keep patients busy with activities and projects like athletic events, field trips, dances, games, and crafts.  Recreation therapists also use dogs or kittens to keep their patients happy and interested.

Salary:

$32,000 - $35,000

Education:

A bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation is usually required to become a recreational therapist.  Physiology, helping skills, anatomy, characteristics of illnesses, and psychology are some of the required courses.  Many states require that therapists be licensed.

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Reflection: Do you think that you would want to be one?

 Why? Why not?

I think that i would like to be this because it looks like a very good career to work in or specialize in.

student success statement
"Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE!.
Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press On' Has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
President Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 - 1933)

Student Success Statement

"every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

~Mario Cuomo

Reflection: i think that this statement is trying to expain that if you know that u are doing the wrong then dont do it.you suppose to always choose the right instead of the wrong.