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recreational-therapist/references/skills.md
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4.8 KiB

Competences — recreational therapist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/f9395e4d-d66f-49ce-a8f5-721991139e79).

Essential

  • assess the patient's therapeutic needs (skill/competence)
  • develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship (skill/competence)
  • listen actively (skill/competence)
  • maintain healthcare user data confidentiality (skill/competence)
  • perform therapeutic musical repertoire (skill/competence)
  • provide health education (skill/competence)
  • respond to incidents in music therapy sessions (skill/competence)
  • review music therapy treatment approaches (skill/competence)

Optional

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

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 47 ads, as of 2026-07-19)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • treatment planning — 32 %