YY LAB ☆

Therapeutic Recreation (TR) 

Everyone, regardless of disability, age, or gender, can enjoy recreational sports and camping. 

These activities have therapeutic value. They are a fun and rewarding way for us to make connections with others and to improve our mental and physical health.  

 

We are conducting research on effective approaches to therapeutic recreation that will provide the most value for participants. Through active learning, practicing TR as part of our daily routine, lab members can appreciate its effects and see how TR can improve the lives of people with various needs, including those with mental and physical disabilities.  

 

Third-year seminar course goals 

① We embrace diversity: everyone has their own individual style so we want you to learn in your own way.

② Students decide the course direction and schedule: developing skills for your future job or post-graduate study.

③ Each student creates research questions for 4th-year thesis and prepares a draft and abstract.

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Contents * Subject to change depending on the situation

・ Self-introductions (icebreaker)

・ Practice new sports together (e.g. sky cross)

・ Recording and analyzing own application of TR and the future.

・ Creating a life history report and promotional leaflet or video in line with developmental theory

・ Planning and management of a universal TR program (e.g. Campwith for people of all ages, from one to 100)

・ Job hunting orientation

・ Thesis orientation

・ Interim presentation of thesis (material report session)

・ Meeting to share and exchange information and ideas

・ Individual consultation with professor

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Forth-year seminar course goals

① Continue to follow your own path to achieve your objectives. 

② Deciding the course contents and direction.

③ Conducting research and writing 4th year thesis.

 

Contents * Subjects dependent on individual career path

・ Interim presentation of thesis (material report session)

・ Meeting to share and exchange information and ideas

・ Individual consultation with professor

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[Main graduation thesis keywords]

Camping, health and sports studies, sports, adapted sports, recreation, volunteering, symbiosis, welfare

Disability, children, the elderly, case studies, animal-assisted therapy, music therapy, USA, Australia, India, Indonesia

 

[Affiliated organizations]

NPO Campwith Special Needs Camp Network, etc.

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