Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 40 - Recreational Therapy Practice Act

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :
       (2)(a) an action by a board, commission, department, officer, or other administrative unit of the state that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities, or other legal interests of one or more identifiable persons, including an action to grant, deny, revoke, suspend, modify, annul, withdraw, or amend an authority, right, or license; and
       (2)(b) judicial review of an action described in Subsection (2)(a). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Approved: means approval by the division in collaboration with the board when used to refer to a licensing requirement. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Assessment: includes :
            (2)(b)(i) a record review;
            (2)(b)(ii) the implementation of standardized and non-standardized instruments, tests, and measurements; and
            (2)(b)(iii) the skilled observation and interview of a person. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Board: means the Board of Recreational Therapy created in Section 58-40-201. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Licensee: includes any holder of a license, certificate, registration, permit, student card, or apprentice card authorized under this title. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Practice of recreational therapy: means to engage in the paid performance of providing recreational therapy services according to the therapeutic recreation process to a person with an emotional, social, intellectual, or physical pathology. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Recreational therapy services: include :
            (6)(b)(i) assessing a person's need for recreational therapy treatment or intervention;
            (6)(b)(ii) developing an individualized treatment or intervention plan that identifies goals, objectives, and treatment strategies for a person;
            (6)(b)(iii) implementing the individualized treatment or intervention plan;
            (6)(b)(iv) documenting a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan, including documenting the overall outcome of the person's treatment;
            (6)(b)(v) regularly evaluating a person's response to the individualized treatment or intervention plan and modifying the plan when appropriate;
            (6)(b)(vi) in collaboration with a person, the person's family, or other team members, developing a discharge or transition plan for the person;
            (6)(b)(vii) serving as a resource to help a person find recreation opportunities that will promote the person's physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual health and well-being; and
            (6)(b)(viii) organizing and managing recreational services according to a written plan of operation as defined by rule of the division. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Sterilization: means any medical procedure, treatment, or operation rendering an individual permanently incapable of procreation. See Utah Code 26B-6-801
• therapeutic recreation: means a person-centered process that uses recreation and psychoeducational activities as intervention tools to improve the physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, emotional, or spiritual well-being of a person with an illness or a disability. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Treatment or intervention plan: means a written record containing the information required by Section 58-40-602, which is composed for each patient by a person licensed under this chapter as a master therapeutic recreation specialist or a therapeutic recreation specialist. See Utah Code 58-40-102
• Unprofessional conduct: is a s defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-40-502. See Utah Code 58-40-102