Volume 1 of the Annual in Therapeutic Recreation was published in 1990. With the birth of a professional journal dedicated to the therapeutic recreation profession, the goal was to create a unique vehicle that would serve as a catalyst in assisting researchers and practitioners to work together toward the common goal of validating the therapeutic recreation process across all its varied constituencies and service settings. Toward that end, a unique editorial mission was developed to encourage and promote communication between and among researchers and practitioners by providing for a focus on clinical and community based program development and research.

Each year the Annual’s editorial board solicits a select number of original manuscripts to ensure that issues of timely importance are developed and placed before the Annual’s readership. The American Therapeutic Recreation Association is pleased to invite the submission of manuscripts related to invited works, and we encourage you to watch our website for the Call for Manuscripts that is posted at the beginning of the planning stage of each new volume.