Therapeutic Recreation Research Articles at the TR Directory

An Application and Effects of the Leisure Education Program in Japanese (LEP-J) on Independence in Leisure Among the Clients in the Independent Living Training Center by Hiro Chino

Bibliography of Computer Application in TR by Charles Dixon

The Relationship Between Therapeutic Recreation and Palliation in the Treatment of the Advanced Cancer Patient- Charles Sourby, MS Ed. , Herbert H. Lehman College

Simple Pleasures: a multilevel sensorimotor intervention for nursing home residents with dementia by Linda Buettner

Therapeutic Recreation in an Elderly Persons Care Setting: A Literature Review by Robert Pressley, student of Health Studies at the Centre for Nurse Education in conjuction with Manchester Metropolitan University of the United Kingdom.

Therapeutic Recreation-Nursing Team: A Therapeutic Intervention for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia by Linda L. Buettner and Joyce Ferrario

Recreation, Leisure & Recreation Therapy Research Associations and Resources

• ATRA
• NRPA
• NTRS
• American Therapeutic Recreation Foundation

Related Discipline

OT Seeker
OT seeker is a database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.
http://www.otseeker.com

CATS Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics
This site contains CATs focusing on occupational therapy interventions.
http://www.otcats.com/

The Cochrane Collaboration
Cochrane is an international organization that aims to help people make well informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining, and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions.
http://www.cochranelibrary.com/enter/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
A federally-funded agency which funds contracts with US and Canadian institutions to review all relevant scientific literature on clinical, behavioral, and organization and financing topics to produce evidence reports and technology assessments.
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm

PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Therapeutic Recreation Research Links

Global Therapeutic Recreation Collection - Collection of papers from International Symposium on Therapeutic Recreation

An Analysis Of Leisure Service Provision For Australians With A Disability by Jason Liverton

Leisure Behaviour Of People With Neuromuscular Disorders by Jason Liverton

The Use Of Integrated Computer Game Play by Jason Liverton

Areas of Practice

School-based and Pediatrics

• http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/
• http://www.childlife.org/

Disability Advocacy

• http://www.beachcenter.org/
• http://www.dri.uiuc.edu/

Autism

• http://www.autism.com/
• http://www.autismspeaks.org/

Geriatrics

• http://www.americangeriatrics.org/
• http://www.marep.uwaterloo.ca/

Play

• The Association for the Study of Play

Web-based EBP resources

• McMaster University in Canada:  www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/ebm
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (for Clinical Guidelines) http://www.guidelines.gov/
• Sum Search searches various web sites for evidence related to the topic you are looking for, sites include PubMed, the Cochrane Collaboration, & the National Guideline Clearinghouse:  http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/
• Netting the Evidence  a web resource for clinicians interested to learn more about evidence-based practice; introduces the topic as well as gives quality web sites for searching the clinical evidence: http://www.shef.ac.uk/%7Escharr/ir/netting/
• Bandolier a print and online journal regarding Evidence Practice: http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/