Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016

• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.23 - Rehabilitation and therapeutic professions

51.2309 - Therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to plan, organize, and direct recreational activities designed to promote health and well-being for patients who are physically, mentally, or emotionally disabled. These programs include courses in the foundations of therapeutic recreation, leisure education and counselling, program planning, therapeutic recreational modalities, basic anatomy and physiology, psychology, medical terminology, human growth and development, patient observation and evaluation, special needs populations, and professional standards and ethics.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • recreation facilitator for older adults
  • recreation facilitator for special needs
  • recreational therapy
  • therapeutic recreation

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • physiotherapy(51.2308)
  • recreation facilitator(31.0101)