In order to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare, to protect the public from being misled by incompetent and un-authorized persons, to assure the highest degree of professional conduct on the part of therapeutic recreation specialists and to assure the availability of therapeutic recreation services of high quality to persons in need of such services, it is the purpose of this act to provide for the regulation of persons offering therapeutic recreation service to the public.
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 540.1