Therapeutically Applied Role Playing Games

Author : Elizabeth D. Kilmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000860221
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games written by Elizabeth D. Kilmer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games provides a comprehensive approach to implementing therapeutically applied role-playing game (TA-RPG) groups for mental health practitioners. When facilitated by a trained professional, TA-RPGs are a powerful tool for insight, growth, and change for individuals and communities. The Game to Grow Method of Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games is a transdiagnostic, transtheoretical, group intervention developed over a decade of practice using Dungeons & Dragons and other popular tabletop role-playing game systems, as well as leveraging therapeutic factors from acceptance and commitment therapy, marriage and family therapy, drama therapy, and interpersonal process groups. TA-RPGs are conceptualized as a gaming system layered on top of established intervention techniques. They can accommodate a multitude of game systems and align with theoretical mechanisms for change found across therapeutic orientations. This work serves as a comprehensive training manual for TA-RPGs, providing a valuable resource for mental health professionals interested in incorporating TA-RPGs into their practice.

Author : Megan A. Connell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324030615
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy: A Guide for the Clinician Game Master written by Megan A. Connell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book explaining “applied RPGs”—using role-playing games therapeutically. Across the globe, therapists are using tabletop roleplaying games (RPG) such as Dungeons & Dragons as a part of their practice. This book provides an overview of what RPGs are and what makes them such an effective and powerful tool for therapy. By examining research on gaming, flow, immersion, and role-play, readers will gain a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and how to skillfully and ethically use RPGs in their own practices. The author also looks at the history of RPGs, specifically focusing on issues of diversity and representation to help providers understand some possible pitfalls that exist within the medium. The book utilizes an example group to walk through everything from conception, planning, running, documentation, and termination of the group.

Author : Sebastian Deterding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317268318
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Role-Playing Game Studies written by Sebastian Deterding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player–character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

Author : Jessica Stone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119553776
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Play written by Jessica Stone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to game play therapy for mental health practitioners The revised and updated third edition of Game Play Therapy offers psychologists and psychiatrists a guide to game play therapy’s theoretical foundations and contains the practical applications that are appropriate for children and adolescents. Game playing has proven to invoke more goal-directed behavior, has the benefit of interpersonal interaction, and can perform a significant role in the adaptation to one's environment. With contributions from noted experts in the field, the third edition contains information on the time-tested, classic games and the most recent innovations and advances in game play approaches. Game Play Therapy’s revised third edition (like the previous editions) continues to fill a gap in the literature by offering mental health practitioners the information needed to understand why and how to use this intervention effectively. The contributors offer advice for choosing the most useful games from the more than 700 now available and describe the fundamentals of administering the games. This important updated book: Contains material on the recent advances in the field including information on electronic games and disorder-specific games Includes illustrative case studies that explore the process of game therapy Reviews the basics of the underlying principles and applications of game therapy Offers a wide-range of games with empirical evidence of the effectiveness of game therapy Written for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health clinicians, the revised third edition of Game Play Therapy offers a guide that shows how to apply game therapy techniques to promote socialization, encourage the development of identity and self-esteem, and help individuals master anxiety.

Author : Daniel Hand
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031317392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Role-Playing Games in Psychotherapy written by Daniel Hand and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an accessible, comprehensive resource to practitioners who wish to incorporate RPGs into their client-work. Tabletop role-playing games, RPGs, have long been associated with various unique emotional, cognitive, and social benefits, but only recently has the term 'RPG Therapy' entered into the mental-health lexicon. Presenting simple game- and storytelling mechanics, and demonstrating how they may be utilized in accordance with specific professional modalities, this supportive guide explores every step of the implementation process, from underlying therapeutic principles to initial creative exercises to actual in-session play, and encourages readers to have confidence in their own imaginative abilities. Written for practitioners of all levels of client- and RPG experience, this groundbreaking and authoritative book provides case examples and practical tools, along with pragmatic and straightforward advice on how to implement this exciting new form of intervention.

Author : Ryan Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781797511344
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Dragons written by Ryan Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for mental health therapists that would like to use Dungeons & Dragons or other role-playing games as a group therapy tool.

Author : Alison Attrill-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198812744
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology written by Alison Attrill-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology explores a wide range of cyberpsychological processes and activities through the research and writings of some of the world's leading cyberpsychology experts. The book is divided into eight sections covering topics as varied as online research methods, self-presentation and impression management, technology across the lifespan, interaction and interactivity, online groups and communities, social media, health and technology,video gaming and cybercrime and cybersecurity.

Author : Anthony Bean
Publisher : Leyline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781734866032
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integrating Geek Culture Into Therapeutic Practice: The Clinician's Guide to Geek Therapy written by Anthony Bean and published by Leyline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had a client who talks about Video Games, Dungeons and Dragons, Anime, or Comic Books? Likely they identify as a Geek. Being a geek can be seen as difficult for many; the social awkwardness, ineptitude, and judgment from others leads individuals to feel isolated in a world of their own. Geeks, by traditional definition, are passionate about anthologies and characters from a variety of fictional, fantasy, and virtual formats that are sometimes niche or unpopular, creating feelings of relatedness towards avatar experiences in an often otherwise lonely life. Integrating Geek Culture into Therapeutic Practice: The Clinician's Guide to Geek Therapy is a comprehensive compendium of how Geek Therapy clinicians and scholars currently use a variety of games, media artifacts, and other geek culture items in therapeutic context and intervention. Even more important, the authors within this book are currently at the forefront of their research fields and are accordingly considered experts within the growing field of Geek Therapy clinical practice. Throughout the book, leading researchers within the field of Psychology, Communication Studies, and more have been able to provide clinical examples, research-based approaches, and specifics about how to utilize these items therapeutically - further enhancing the material and providing solid supportive guidance for clinicians. Clinicians reading this can develop further competence and understanding of the concepts found within their practices which will be helpful for their personal success and cultural competence to best serve their clientele. These modalities have resulted in clients experiencing: Reduced anxiety and depressive symptoms Improved self-esteem Richer interpersonal interactions Greater social and school engagement and Superior development of social skills and problem solving These techniques are being used to improve overall psychological well-being across all ages, as well as focusing on the specific needs of targeted populations, such as those with ADHD, ASD, PTSD, and mood and anxiety disorders.

Author : W. A. Hawkes-Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736230206
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Role-Playing Game Professional Level 1 Training Workbook written by W. A. Hawkes-Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a workbook for RPG professionals! First in a series of workbooks to train professionals on the use of role-playing games in their industry.For other editions available see https://www.rpgworkbook.com.The training this book supports is based on over 40 years of research and evidence-in-practice, tens of thousands of hours of application, decades of real-world professional implementations across multiple disciplines, thousands of participants, repeated peer review iterations, and more than a thousand direct research contributions.Level 1 training assumes zero prior experience with any role-playing game format, but even experienced grognards will immensely benefit from all of the information provided from the associated training!This workbook is recommended for all RPG Professional industries, including but not limited to:* recreation* entertainment* education* publishing* healthcare* recreation therapy and therapeutic recreation* therapeutic (many disciplines)* and many other professions.This workbook covers all of the major RPG formats, including:* Tabletop (TRPG)* Live-action (LRPG & Larp)* Electronic (ERPG)* Hybrids (HRPG).Even if you aren't an aspiring RPG Professional, you will find the information provided with the training associated with this workbook very helpful to greatly improve your games in quality, safety, and fun!While useful for anyone, this workbook is designed specifically to match any of the following:* Paid professional training workshops through RPG.LLC (www.rpg.llc)* Self-paced guided online training through RPG Education (www.rpg.education)* Free volunteer training programs through the non-profit RPG Research (www.rpgresearch.com)* Other schools and professional training programs and providers designed to fit this training program (www.rpgprofessionals.com)This workbook is useful for anyone interested in learning about role-playing games at any level, from absolute beginner to experienced long-time gamer.It is specifically designed for those people training to become a role-playing game professional. Learn more at https://www.rpgprofessionals.comThe workbook covers all 16 training session modules for level 1 RPG professional trainees, and those working toward the CERTIFIED ROLE-PLAYING GAME PROFESSIONAL certification. Learn more at https://www.crpgp.com

Author : Janina Scarlet
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472139690
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapy Quest written by Janina Scarlet and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever want to be a hero? Have you ever dreamed of going on an epic quest to destroy monsters, defeat evil forces and fly on the back of a dragon? This interactive new self-help book puts you, the reader, in a fantasy world where every decision you make and every path you take will influence the outcome of your journey. When the seer Anka spirits you away to the world of Here, you find yourself proclaimed the Chosen One - the hero everyone is relying on to defeat the evil sorceress Mallena before she destroys everything. But you don't feel like a hero, do you? If you choose to accept this quest, you will have an opportunity to learn the skills that you need and put together a crew of loyal friends and companions to help you with your journey. The skills are based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which has been shown through research to help people overcome depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, addiction disorders and many other common problems. Your journey will be full of danger, loss and strange creatures, but it will also be full of excitement, adventure and fun, and will let you form life-long bonds of friendship, which no curses can break. This book is your call to adventure, an invitation to be the hero in your own story.