Special Issue: Call for Papers Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in Whole Person Health

2025-01-31

                                                              Special Issue: Call for Papers

                       Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy in Whole Person Health

Florence Williams Keynote speaker 2024 ATRA Conference and author of The Nature Fix, Why Nature makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative responses to a Q & A by Drs. B. McCormick and G. Snethen in an invited paper.

Additionally, for this special issue we invite collaborative authorships among TR/RT authors and colleagues from peer disciplines to focus on Complementary and integrative health (https://www.nccih.nih.gov/):

Whole person health (National Institutes of Health-National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health-NCCIH Strategic Plan FY 2021–2025: Mapping a Pathway to Research on Whole Person Health-https://www.nccih.nih.gov/about/nccih-strategic-plan-2021-2025)

Health inequities and justice

Global well-being

Technology and whole person health

Interprofessional practices fostering whole person health

Evidence-based interventions for pain and symptom reduction to improve resilience, restore health, and live in recovery

Evidence-based TR/RT practices in complementary and conventional health care

TR/RT innovation in whole person health care

 Submission Dates:

Proposal: May 15, 2025

Manuscript: September 15, 2025

Publication: TRJ Issue 2 or 3, 2026

Proposal

(one 250-300 word paragraph): Due May 15, 2025 by email to Editor-in-Chief detailing:

 

  • Purpose of manuscript
  • Rationale/justification/relevance to topic
  • Type of manuscript (conceptual, theoretical; qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods research; brief report; intervention/protocol; practice perspective/case study, systematic literature review)
  • Author(s) contact information with preference given to TR/RT author(s) and colleague(s) from peer discipline(s):          

 Submissions

All papers are submitted electronically.

To submit a paper, please go to http://js.sagamorepub.com/trj. All submitted articles should follow the Publica­tion Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition, and the Therapeutic Recreation Journal guide­lines. Submission steps, APA, and author guidelines are found online: https://js.sagamorepub.com/trj/about/submissions.

 

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Authors of accepted manuscripts will be requested to submit 10 multiple-choice questions and three objectives for their respective manuscripts.

Editor-in-Chief

Marcia Jean Carter, Re.D., CPRP, CTRS, FDRT, FALS

E-mail: mj-carter2@wiu.edu