As a Recreational Therapist, you will need to master following:

• assess the patient's therapeutic needs
• maintain healthcare user data confidentiality

More generally, a recreational therapist is also versed in:

• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• listen actively
• provide health education

It also helps to know the following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• animal therapy
• anthropology
• apply art therapy interventions
• apply context specific clinical competences
• apply music therapy assessment methods
• apply music therapy methods
• apply music therapy treatment methods
• apply psychoanalysis
• apply related sciences to music therapy
• apply risk management in sports
• assess art therapy sessions
• assess music therapy sessions
• autism
• behavioural therapy
• cognitive behavioural therapy
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• control animal movement
• dance therapy
• develop a repertoire for music therapy sessions
• diagnose mental disorders
• eating disorders
• encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• handle patient trauma
• human psychological development
• identify patients' behaviours
• music therapy processes
• observe healthcare users
• organise relapse prevention
• perform dances
• plan music therapy sessions
• practice gestalt therapy
• prepare treatment plan for art therapy
• promote inclusion
• psychoacoustics
• psychoanalysis
• psychopathology
• psychopharmacology
• psychosociology
• recognise patients' reaction to therapy
• record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
• refer healthcare users
• reflexion
• theory of art therapy
• types of music therapies
• use art in a therapeutic setting
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• work in multidisciplinary health teams
• work with healthcare users' social network
• adhere to organisational guidelines
• apply organisational techniques
• cognitive psychology
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• disability types
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• ensure proper appointment administration
• fine arts
• geriatrics
• health care legislation
• health care occupation-specific ethics
• human physiology
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• manage healthcare users' data
• medical studies
• neurology
• paediatrics
• pedagogy
• peer group methods
• philosophy
• psychology
• psychotherapy principles
• record treated patient's information
• relaxation techniques
• respond to changing situations in health care
• sexology
• sociology
• take referred patients
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care
• victimology
• work in a multicultural environment in health care
• write work-related reports