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TRJ Special Issue: Call for Papers

2023-11-27

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 
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The Therapeutic Recreation Journal (TRJ) is the renowned quarterly publication published by Sagamore Publishing LLC. The journal, published for over 50 years, provides a national forum for research and discussion on the needs of persons with disabilities, problems confronting the profession, new vistas of service, and receiving therapeutic recreation services.

The Therapeutic Recreation Journal is receiving a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* for the first time in Clarivate’s 2023 Journal Citation Reports (2022 data). The Therapeutic Recreation Journal has a current JIF of 0.6.

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