Discussion Questions 3
When and why should a therapeutic recreation specialist begin addressing career resilience?
Does having a professional credential make a therapeutic recreation professional more qualified or a better practitioner? Why or why not?
What are the benefits of professional credentialing for the individual therapeutic recreation specialist? For the employer? For the consumer?
Discussions Questions 3 continued
How does the therapeutic recreation profession determine (that is, define and measure) professional competence?
Maintaining client confidentiality is an ethical responsibility of the therapeutic recreation specialist. Is confidentiality absolute or situational? Why?
How does the professional (moral agent) contend with consumers’ choices that are immoral in nature?
Why and how are professional organizations important to the vitality of the profession? Why and how are organizations beneficial to the individual specialist?