Test Trivia Question and Answer Flashcards

Which facilitation technique involves the therapist gradually reducing assistance as the client gains independence?

Answer: Fading

Fading is the systematic reduction of prompts or assistance as a client becomes more proficient at a skill.

The 'leisure education' component of the Therapeutic Recreation Service Model primarily aims to:

Answer: Develop leisure awareness and social skills

Leisure education focuses on helping clients develop leisure awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for independent leisure participation.

Which of the following is an example of an expressive arts intervention used in TR to help clients process emotions?

Answer: Journaling

Journaling is an expressive arts intervention that facilitates emotional processing and self-reflection.

When using horticulture therapy with a client who has dementia, the PRIMARY benefit targeted is often:

Answer: Sensory stimulation and reality orientation

Horticulture therapy provides multisensory stimulation and familiar, meaningful activity that supports reality orientation in clients with dementia.

Which theory supports the idea that optimal experience occurs when skill level and challenge are in balance?

Answer: Flow theory

Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory describes the state of optimal engagement that occurs when challenge and skill are matched.

A therapeutic recreation specialist conducting a social skills group should FIRST:

Answer: Assess each client's baseline social functioning

Baseline assessment of each client's social functioning is necessary before designing and implementing any social skills group.

The term 'normalization' in therapeutic recreation refers to:

Answer: Providing experiences that are consistent with typical life patterns

Normalization means offering people with disabilities experiences, rhythms, and patterns of life that are as close as possible to those of the typical community.