Occupation Atlasrecreational therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f9395e4d-d66f-49ce-a8f5-721991139e79
recreational therapist
Recreational therapists offer treatment to persons who have behavioural disorders or conditions. They use techniques and interventions such as art, music, animals and dance to promote, maintain and restore the development and health of the patient.
Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
SIRSocial · Investigative · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.82
- I Investigative4.32
- R Realistic3.69
- A Artistic2.87
- C Conventional2.67
- E Enterprising2.51
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Recreational Therapists (29-1125.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (8)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- perform therapeutic musical repertoire
- provide health education
- respond to incidents in music therapy sessions
- review music therapy treatment approaches
Optional (88)
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- animal therapy
- anthropology
- applied music therapy
- apply art therapy interventions
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply music therapy assessment methods
- apply music therapy methods
- apply music therapy treatment methods
- apply organisational techniques
- apply psychoanalysis
- apply risk management in sports
- assess art therapy sessions
- assess music therapy sessions
- autism
- behavioural therapy
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- cognitive psychology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- control animal movement
- dance therapy
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a repertoire for music therapy sessions
- diagnose mental disorders
- disability types
- eating disorders
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- fine arts
- geriatrics
- handle patient trauma
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human physiology
- human psychological development
- identify patients' behaviours
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical studies
- music therapy processes
- neurology
- observe healthcare users
- organise relapse prevention
- paediatrics
- pedagogy
- peer group methods
- perform dances
- perform therapy sessions
- philosophy
- plan music therapy sessions
- practice gestalt therapy
- prepare treatment plan for art therapy
- promote inclusion
- psychoacoustics
- psychoanalysis
- psychology
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- psychosociology
- psychotherapy principles
- recognise patients' reaction to therapy
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- record treated patient's information
- refer healthcare users
- reflexion
- relaxation techniques
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sexology
- sociology
- take referred patients
- theory of art therapy
- types of music therapies
- use art in a therapeutic setting
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- victimology
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work with healthcare users' social network
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 8 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
music therapist
8 shared · 88 more of its ownperform therapeutic musical repertoire, respond to incidents in music therapy sessions, review music therapy treatment approaches, assess the patient's therapeutic needs
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animal assisted therapist
5 shared · 6 more of its ownassess the patient's therapeutic needs, maintain healthcare user data confidentiality, develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education
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dance therapist
5 shared · 11 more of its ownassess the patient's therapeutic needs, maintain healthcare user data confidentiality, develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education
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art therapist
5 shared · 45 more of its ownassess the patient's therapeutic needs, maintain healthcare user data confidentiality, develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education
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herbal therapist
4 shared · 22 more of its ownmaintain healthcare user data confidentiality, develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education, listen actively
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dental hygienist
3 shared · 29 more of its owndevelop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education, listen actively
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healthcare assistant
3 shared · 29 more of its owndevelop a collaborative therapeutic relationship, provide health education, listen actively
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