+ Sharing Your TR Experiences through Therapeutic Recreation: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

+ Sharing Your TR Experiences through Therapeutic Recreation: Practice & Research (TRPR) – Journal of TRO Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Kimberly Lyons, Editor Recreation & Leisure Dept. University of Waterloo

+ Welcome! • Introductions: To the TRPR editorial team • To the review and publication process • Kimberly Lyons, Editor MA, TR Partner in Care Kimberly is invested in moving the profession from the medical model of healthcare into a more holistic, community based paradigm that addresses fundamental existential concerns such as purpose, meaning, sex, spirituality, pain, and death.

+ 3 Associate Editors Shannon Knutson, MA, TRS • With a passion for ongoing learning and helping others, Shannon's main • clinical interest involves supporting individuals with mental health challenges to engage in meaningful activities through an eclectic approach encompassing therapeutic recreation, occupational therapy, and mindfulness- based interventions. Shannon is also a trained yoga instructor who is passionate and driven to share the benefits and gifts yoga has given her in an accessible way to both clinical and non-clinical populations. Julian Macnaughton, MA , Ph.D. (c) • Julian is a doctoral student in Recreation & Leisure Studies at the University of • Waterloo, with interests in community-based action research, social inclusion, and social capital. His diverse range of experiences include a variety of roles in non-profit, including as program facilitator for new immigrant and refugee youth in a recreation-based settlement program in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a volunteer for Street Soccer Victoria building social inclusion for street-entrenched and marginalized populations, and as a community support worker leveraging recreation to build life-skills and inclusion for adults with fetal-alcohol syndrome and autism spectrum disorders.

+  The Therapeutic Recreation: Practice & Research (TPPR) Journal is a resource affiliated with Therapeutic Recreation Ontario (TRO)  The journal is housed within the department About the journal of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the Content University of Waterloo

+ Review process 5 (when you submit your paper)  Submission and assignment  Phase One  Phase Two  Proof pages and publication

+ Review process 6 (when you submit your paper)  Submission and assignment  A paper is received  Ed review paper, remove identifiers, and assign paper based on reviewer interests, experience, and ‘expertise’

+ Review process 7 (when you submit your paper)  Phase One  Submission and assignment  Paper is sent to an assigned  A paper is received reviewer one for commenting  Ed review paper, remove  Paper is passed to an assigned identifiers, and assign paper reviewer two for commenting based on reviewer interests,  Paper is returned to author(s) for experience, and ‘expertise’ revisions

+ Review process 8 (when you submit your paper)  Submission and assignment  Phase One  Phase Two  Proof pages and publication

+ Review process 9 (when you submit your paper)  Phase One  Submission and assignment  Paper is sent to an assigned  A paper is received reviewer one for commenting  Ed review paper, remove  Paper is passed to an assigned identifiers, and assign paper reviewer two for commenting based on reviewer interests,  Paper is returned to author(s) for experience, and ‘expertise’ revisions  Phase Two  Paper is received with completed revisions  Paper is sent to reviewer one for commenting  Paper is returned to author  Paper is received with completed revisions

+ Review process 10 (when you submit your paper)  Submission and assignment  Phase One  Phase Two  Proof pages and publication

+ Review process 11 (when you submit your paper)  Phase One  Submission and assignment  Paper is sent to an assigned  A paper is received reviewer one for commenting  Ed review paper, remove  Paper is passed to an assigned identifiers, and assign paper reviewer two for commenting based on reviewer interests,  Paper is returned to author(s) for experience, and ‘expertise’ revisions  Proof pages and publication  Phase Two  All papers are reviewed by Ed  Paper is received with  Minor suggestions for change are completed revisions flagged and returned to author in  Paper is sent to reviewer one ‘proof’ form for commenting  Author accepts changes or provides rationale for declining  Paper is returned to author changes  Paper is received with  Paper is accepted and ready for completed revisions publication

+ 2016-2017 TRO Webinar Series: The Journey to Publication…the good, the bad, and the ugly by Jill Gibson & Joellyn Leblanc Featuring Kim Lyons as panel speaker Webinar highlighting what it takes to get to publication with TRPR – Journal of TRO Accessed for free for TRO members on the TRO ‘Continuing Education’ site https://www.trontario.org/education-research/continuing-education/index.html

+  Communication and networking  Advancement of the TR profession  Professional development  Contributing to a Canadian body of TR knowledge  Strengthen writing skills Why is the TRPR Journal  Reflect on and evaluate your practice an important resource?  Make your knowledge accessible to fellow As a writer TRs, researchers, and educators  Develop a body of evidence-based practices  Feedback on your programs/research  Disseminate innovative practices across the field of TR and beyond

+  Communication and networking  Support the advancement of the TR profession through readership  Develop awareness of practices across the TR practice/research spectra  Learn from a body of Canadian TR knowledge  Reflect on and evaluate your own practices  Integrate evidence-based practices in your Why is the TRPR Journal own TR work an important resource?  Opportunity to give feedback on fellow TRs’ As a reader programs/research  Opportunity to collaborate with fellow TRs ’, TR researchers and/or TR educators in programs and/or research  Translate innovative practices across the field of TR and beyond

What kind of papers do we publish at TRPR – Journal of TRO? Professional Practice Papers + 1) Papers highlighting a program, practice or 1. intervention 2) Papers exploring specific TR issues or topics 2. Research Papers

+ Professional Practice Papers Professional Practice Papers - Professional Practice Paper - Issues Intervention  Introduce your reader to the  Introduce your reader to the issue program, practice or intervention  Explain purpose and provide  Provide a clear rationale rationale  Provide a detailed program  Describe & develop the issue description  Include citations  Discuss key literature used  Further discuss: participant  Provide specific stories or experience, outcomes, challenges, examples evaluation  Outline the implications of the  Recommend & discuss implications issue for the TR profession for TR practice

+ 17 Research Papers  Rationale for the study  Clear purpose statement and/ or research questions  Methodology  A description of how you’re going to gather and analyze your data  Findings  Address study purpose and research questions  Implications for TR practice  What contributions does your study make to TR practice

+ 18 Research Papers  Compare the Research process to the APIE process (LeBlanc & Singleton, 2007)  Assessment/Literature Review  Gather all the relevant information you can about the subject  Plan/Methodology  Plan out how you’re going to carry out your research project  Implementation/Data Collection & Analysis  The action phase of your research project: interviews, observation, surveys, recording, seeking out themes and outliers  Evaluation/Results & Recommendations  What worked? What didn’t? What would you change? What does the outcome lend to TR practice as we know it? The TRPR Journal

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+ Connect with the TRPR Journal 21 Stay involved, stay current  Social Media + Email  Twitter - @TRPRJournalTRO  LinkedIn – TRPRTRO  Facebook – facebook.com/TRPRJournalTRO  Email – trojournal@uwaterloo.ca

+ Connect with the TRPR Journal 22 Stay involved, stay current  Social Media + Email  Twitter - @TRPRJournalTRO  LinkedIn – TRPRTRO  Facebook – facebook.com/TRPRJournalTRO  Email – trojournal@uwaterloo.ca  Through TRO and TRO communications  Website - https://trontario.org/trpr-journal-of-tro  Monthly eTRO  TRO communications – Twitter, Facebook, InTRO  Annual TRO Conference

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