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Quality Internships

We are excited to announce that our Quality Internship Supervisor Training is now available! This training program has been designed by a panel of experts, reviewed by practitioners and educators, and piloted at the ATRA 2022 Annual Conference. 


ATRA believes that part of living our mission to empower recreational therapists is ensuring that every student and soon-to-be practitioner experiences a quality internship that prepares them to be an excellent professional. If you supervise interns, make sure to complete the ATRA Quality Internship Supervisor Training Program today!

 


Training Available Here: https://www.pathlms.com/atra/courses/46259

The Quality Internships Committee supports the Quality Providers Team in their mission to Create, implement and promote a set of standards that will identify parameters that advance excellence within the practice of recreational therapy. The committee’s first task was to create guidelines for identifying qualified – and highly-qualified- internship supervisors/ clinical instructors. We did this by working with practitioners and educators around the country. These guidelines, adopted in September 2021, go beyond the basic NCTRC guidelines to promote excellence in recreational therapy internship supervision. 


Make sure to read the full Quality Internship Supervisor Statement developed by the team

Quality Internship Supervisor Manual 

ATRA believes that part of empowering recreational therapists is ensuring every student and soon-to-be-practitioner experiences a quality internship that prepares them to be a professional. To assist internship sites with developing and maintaining a quality internship, we have developed an Internship Manual Template which outlines key components of a useful and effective internship manual. We worked with multiple agencies across the country to provide examples for varied populations and settings. It is our hope that internship sites can use these examples and the template to create an internship manual that is comprehensive and useful.


To view the manual, you will need to be signed into your member account.

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