Participants will explore the content of the ATRA Standards of Practice, understand their ethical responsibility, and learn how these can and should guide the process of developing policies and procedures for a Recreational Therapy department or program. Participants will learn the basics of policy and procedure writing to aid in the development and/or revision of their current policies and procedures.

Upon completion of the module, participants will be able to:
1. verbalize their ethical responsibility under each of the standards
2. verbalize at least three fundamentals of policy and procedure writing
3. verbalize at least three ways the ATRA SOP can be implemented in various RT treatment settings
4. demonstrate an understanding of how to create a policy and procedure manual using the ATRA SOP during small group interactions