Profile for Tara Delong

Tara Delong, Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, presented "How to Establish a Facility Dog Program in Recreational Therapy Settings" at Wisconsin Therapeutic Recreation Association Conference on April 17 in UW-La Crosse.

Submitted on: April 27

Tara Delong, Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, presented "Clinical Supervision: Feedback That Fuels Growth" at Wisconsin Therapeutic Recreation Association Conference on April 17 in UW-La Crosse.

Submitted on: April 27

Tara Delong and Jennifer Taylor, both Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, presented "How to Establish a Facility Dog Program" at Great Lakes Recreational Therapy Student Conference on Saturday, April 5 in Hudson, IL.

Submitted on: April 2, 2025

Tara Delong, Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, was interviewed by Rob Ferrett of Wisconsin Public Radio on March 31. How to be in awe explores the feeling of awe and wonder as an opportunity to support health and well-being for improved mental health. Listen to DeLong, a UWL teaching professor, as she talks through the importance of integrating awe inspiring moments in our life. DeLong's interview is the third episode listed on the page. 

Submitted on: April 1, 2025

Tara Delong, Jennifer Taylor and W. Thomas Means, all Recreation Management & Recreational Therapy, co-authored the article "RT Open Eagles: Answering the call for evidence-based practice" in American Journal of Recreation Therapy published on March 11 by Weston Medical Publishing. The development, implementation, and access to evidence-based practice (EBP) within the field of recreational therapy (RT) is of critical importance. Moreover, measuring the outcomes and efficacy of RT interventions and the establishment of EBP is paramount to the growth and success of the field as an allied healthcare profession. Resolving this deficiency has proven to be a difficult task for a variety of reasons. Considering this deficiency, and a need for a graduate curriculum redesign, the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) designed an integrated capstone project to assess student learning while at the same time generating content for an open-access, web-based repository named RT Open Eagles.

Submitted on: Mar. 31, 2024