Recreation Therapy Featured Students
ERIN ELIZABETH MODE - Fall 2011 Graduate,
University Honors in Recreation Therapy.
Erin's Honors Project: A Study of
Recreational Therapists' Knowledge of 2010 CMS Guidelines in the MDS 3.0
In
October 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the
3rd edition of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for use in long term care facilities.
In the new MDS 3.0, recreational therapy is now identified as a skilled service.
Recreational therapy services are still not billable with the new changes, but
data are being collected by CMS to determine recreational therapy treatment
usage. This study surveyed recreational therapists in NC who work in long term
care to determine their knowledge of this change and their coding practices. The
study found that only a small percentage of recreational therapists are offering
active treatment and an even smaller percentage are coding for serrvices on the
MDS 3.0. This study can serve as a foundation for further research on the topic
and training of MDS 3.0 for recreational therapists. (Erin's faculty supervisor:
Dr. Candy Ashton-Forrester)
AUSTIN THOMPSON (right) Senior Recreation Therapy Major, introduced Dr. Cathy Barlow, Provost, at the Inaugural College of Health & Human Services Convocation in October, 2011.
CASEY SOLANO, current Recreation Therapy
Student, on Hula Hooping
During my Assessment and Outcome Planning in
Recreation Therapy class in the Spring, I was assigned a semester long project
that allowed me to implement a personal intervention using the recreation
therapy process of APIE (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation).
My professor, Dr. Johnson, with some hesitation at first, agreed to let me
choose hula hooping as my intervention. I can remember the exact day I got my
first hoop because since then my life has changed dramatically.
The hoop soon became a part of me, I started to enter what fellow hooper's call
"flow", the connection of body and mind through the circle. By the end of the
semester project I had facilitated hooping with children and adults during
Accessible Recreation Day at UNCW, performed at a sold out concert in front of
over 1,300 people, and began making my own hoops to sell. I've hooped all over
the East Coast this summer making a name for myself in the hoop community and
passing the joy I have found in it to others. -Casey Solano
Casey plans to use hooping as a recreation therapy
intervention for such outcomes as stress reduction, self-esteem, and
coordination. You can see Casey hooping at:
(External Links)
http://www.hoopcity.ca/video/hurricane-hoopin?xg_source=activity
http://www.youtube.com/user/cSOLhooper?feature=mhee
http://www.hoopcity.ca/profile/CaseySol
LEAH COX,
Recreation Therapy
alumna,
furthers her
education
I am a UNCW Recreation Therapy alumna (2009) currently attending graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill for a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling and Psychology. The education that I received at UNCW encouraged me to pursue the helping profession of rehabilitation counseling and psychology because I can integrate my recreation therapy knowledge and skills to further help individuals with disabilities. Without my experience at UNCW, I would not have been as prepared as I was for graduate school, and my education here has and is continually opening doors for my future. Thank you UNCW Recreation Therapy! - Leah Cox
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