TRJ Special Issue: Call for Papers
Special Issue: Call for Papers
Interprofessional Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy Practices and Education: Focus on Health and Quality of Life
Submission Dates:
Proposal: February 15, 2024
Manuscript: May 15, 2024
Publication: Issue 1 or 2 TRJ 2025
There is a need to advance interprofessional education and practice in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy (TR/RT) and support the therapeutic recreation profession’s engagement in the global imperative to improve education and health outcomes (Khalili, et al., 2021). As a profession that promotes optimal health and quality of life, we are essential to the interprofessional team (Anderson & Heyne, 2021). For this special issue, we invite manuscripts from colleagues and (TR/RT) professionals with a focus on:
- Innovative Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) involving TR/RT in collaboration with other professions
- Conceptual papers highlighting the essential role of TR/RT on interdisciplinary teams in diverse settings
- Role of International Classification of Function (ICF) in collaboration with other professions
- Role of Intersectionality theory within ICF to assist in collaboration with other professions
- Interprofessional Education among TR/RT curricula/programs—opportunities and challenges
- Integration of interprofessional competencies into fieldwork and interprofessional TR/RT education
- TR/RT student perspectives of interprofessional education and practice
- Interprofessional collaborative practices and initiatives in various TR/RT practice settings
- Innovative collaborative research, practices, and education during health emergencies
- Academic/Community partnerships affecting education and health outcomes
- Strategies linking education and practice to improve health and education outcomes—National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (NexusIPE™)
- Evaluation models of interprofessional collaboration and education
- Collegial developed healthcare case studies supporting TR/RT
- Practice perspectives describing effective interprofessional TR/RT practices
- Administrative support of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice in TR/RT