A contextual history of how ATRA became the sole professional membership organization for recreational therapy
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https://doi.org/10.5055/ajrt.0300Keywords:
therapeutic recreation, recreational therapy, professional organizations, American Therapeutic Recreation AssociationAbstract
For more than a decade, the profession has finally been housed in one sole professional organization, the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA), begging the question: How have we achieved unification? This article addresses this question by looking into our history to illuminate the events that have occurred and shaped ATRA, with the goal of understanding how today’s professional membership organization came into being, and how it defines itself, stipulates its mission and goals, and represents the profession.
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