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January 31, 2003
ATRA Annual Now Listed on the CINAHL research database
(Alexandria) The American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) is pleased to announce the acceptance of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s Annual in Therapeutic Recreation in the CINAHLÒ electronic database for nursing and allied health literature. ATRA’s executive Director, Ann Huston stated, “We are very pleased with the opportunity to share this worthy collection with other allied health providers.”
The Annual in Therapeutic Recreation is the professional research journal to the field of Therapeutic Recreation. Recreational Therapists at all levels, research, academia, senior clinicians, novice, entry level and students benefit from the annual release of current research to support the profession. The Annual in Therapeutic Recreation was created to provide current and relevant empirical research findings to advance the practice of recreational therapy in various health care and human service settings.
ATRA Academic Affairs team led by Jennifer Hinton and Betsy Kennedy, along with their board liaison Nancy McFarlane worked diligently through the application process for CINAHL. The team felt it was very important for therapeutic recreation students, as well as other allied health professionals to have access to the important research data in the ATRA Annual.
Included in the CINAHL database will be individual article abstracts/summaries and cited references. Individuals will be able to order specific articles from current and past ATRA Annual in Therapeutic Recreation editions as well as articles from the over 1,200 journals indexed in the CINAHL® database. This is an exciting advancement for the ATRA Annual in Therapeutic Recreation. ATRA is very excited at the prospect of increasing the availability of the Annual’s current and important research not only within the therapeutic recreation profession, but increasing access to all allied health professionals, researchers and students.
For more information, please contact the ATRA National Office at (703) 683-9420 or Laurie Jake, CTRS, ATRA Communications Coordinator at (480) 460-1525.
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The American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) was founded in 1984 to advance the profession of therapeutic recreation. ATRA is a non-profit, professional membership organization dedicating 100% of resources and efforts to promote therapeutic recreation professionals in health care and human service settings. For more information, please visit ATRA at www.atra-tr.org ..