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Which theory of aging posits that older adults who remain active and socially engaged maintain higher life satisfaction than those who withdraw?
Answer: Activity theory
Activity theory proposes that maintaining social roles and activities is key to life satisfaction in older adults, directly supporting TR's role in aging populations.
A CTRS is completing a functional assessment for a client with a spinal cord injury at C6. Which leisure activity modification is MOST appropriate?
Answer: Use adaptive equipment such as universal cuffs for hand activities
Clients with C6 SCI have wrist extension but no hand function; adaptive equipment like universal cuffs enables meaningful upper extremity participation in many activities.
Under HIPAA, a CTRS may share a client's protected health information (PHI) without written authorization for which purpose?
Answer: Treatment, payment, and healthcare operations
HIPAA's TPO exception allows sharing PHI without authorization for treatment (including care coordination), payment, and healthcare operations purposes.
Which type of facilitation technique involves the therapist gradually reducing assistance as the client gains competency?
Answer: Fading
Fading is the systematic, gradual reduction of prompts or assistance as the client demonstrates increasing competency, promoting independence.
When a CTRS evaluates a client's leisure lifestyle, which domain is LEAST likely to be addressed?
Answer: Cardiovascular endurance training
Leisure lifestyle evaluation addresses awareness, skills, and community resources for recreation — cardiovascular endurance training is a clinical health outcome goal, not a leisure lifestyle domain.
A CTRS working in a school setting is part of an IEP team. TR services in this context are MOST likely classified as:
Answer: A related service
Under IDEA, therapeutic recreation is listed as a related service that supports a student's access to special education and enables participation in school activities.
Which ethical principle requires a CTRS to act in the client's best interest, even when the client's stated preference may conflict with their wellbeing?
Answer: Beneficence
Beneficence means actively promoting the client's good and acting in their best interest — it may sometimes create tension with client autonomy.