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REC 121: Introduction to Therapeutic Recreation Services

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Activities, adaption, & aging

Adapted physical activity quarterly

ICHPER-SD journal

Journal of leisure research

Journal of physical education, recreation & dance

Leisure sciences

Palaestra

Parks & recreation

Sports 'n spokes

Therapeutic recreation journal

The USM Libraries do not subscribe to a database devoted solely to Therapeutic Recreation. However, because of the broad, interdisciplinary nature of TR, many of the Libraries' databases provide useful citations.

• Physical Education Index
  Subjects include physical education curricula, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education, and physical therapy.

  SPORTDiscus
  Subjects include biomechanics, coaching, engineering, physical therapy, and physiology. Indexes over 2,000 journals as well as books, theses, and non-print resources.

  Academic Search Premier
  Multidisciplinary in scope, it provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly publications of which 2,400 are peer reviewed.

  Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
  Provides full text for 550 scholarly journals and indexing for more than 570 journals.

• Ingenta Connect
  Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals from 1988 to the present.

  MEDLINE
  Index to more than 3,600 journals covering all areas of clinical and experimental medicine, nursing, and health administration.

Accurate, properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies are indicators of good academic research, and the ethical/legal use of information. For help citing your references using APA documentation, the following resources are available:

Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources (Look under “Citation Styles” for APA format)

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Purdue University)

Created by: Pat Prieto
Created on: 02.08.2008
Last Updated: 02.08.2008