Introduction to therapeutic recreation service -- Rationale for therapeutic recreation service -- Disabled persons in modern society -- Professional development in therapeutic recreation service -- Therapeutic recreation as a treatment service -- Special recreation in community life -- Program planning, leadership and activities in therapeutic recreation -- Recreation for persons with physical disabilities -- Recreation and mental illness -- Recreation and developmental disability -- Therapeutic recreation through the life-span -- Recreation and social deviancy -- Recreation, addiction and substance abuse -- Research, evaluation and quality assurance in therapeutic recreation.