Acceptance of Serious Games in Psychotherapy: An Inquiry into the Stance of Therapists and Patients

Eichenberg, Christiane; Grabmayer, Gloria; Green, Nikos

doi:10.1089/tmj.2016.0001

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“…Future reviews could thus address both questions left open in this scoping review and compare study findings on acceptability of e-mental health between different groups of adopters, such as patients and clinicians [57] or laypersons and health professionals. For instance, Carper et al [33] showed rather negative attitudes toward e-mental health treatments among help-seeking persons, whereas surveyed health professionals tended to report neutral views.…”

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Public Acceptability of E-Mental Health Treatment Services for Psychological Problems: A Scoping Review

Apolinário-Hagen¹,

Kemper²,

Stürmer³

2017

JMIR Ment Health

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BackgroundOver the past decades, the deficient provision of evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental health problems has become a global challenge across health care systems. In view of the ongoing diffusion of new media and mobile technologies into everyday life, Web-delivered electronic mental health (e-mental health) treatment services have been suggested to expand the access to professional help. However, the large-scale dissemination and adoption of innovative e-mental health services is progressing slowly. This discrepancy between potential and actual impact in public health makes it essential to explore public acceptability of e-mental health treatment services across health care systems.ObjectiveThis scoping review aimed to identify and evaluate recent empirical evidence for public acceptability, service preferences, and attitudes toward e-mental health treatments. On the basis of both frameworks for technology adoption and previous research, we defined (1) perceived helpfulness and (2) intentions to use e-mental health treatment services as indicators for public acceptability in the respective general population of reviewed studies. This mapping should reduce heterogeneity and help derive implications for systematic reviews and public health strategies.MethodsWe systematically searched electronic databases (MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, Psyndex, PsycARTICLES, and Cochrane Library, using reference management software for parallel searches) to identify surveys published in English in peer-reviewed journals between January 2010 and December 2015, focusing on public perceptions about e-mental health treatments outside the context of clinical, psychosocial, or diagnostic interventions. Both indicators were obtained from previous review. Exclusion criteria further involved studies targeting specific groups or programs.ResultsThe simultaneous database search identified 76 nonduplicate records. Four articles from Europe and Australia were included in this scoping review. Sample sizes ranged from 217 to 2411 participants of ages 14-95 years. All included studies used cross-sectional designs and self-developed measures for outcomes related to both defined indicators of public acceptability. Three surveys used observational study designs, whereas one study was conducted as an experiment investigating the impact of brief educational information on attitudes. Taken together, the findings of included surveys suggested that e-mental health treatment services were perceived as less helpful than traditional face-to-face interventions. Additionally, intentions to future use e-mental health treatments were overall smaller in comparison to face-to-face services. Professional support was essential for help-seeking intentions in case of psychological distress. Therapist-assisted e-mental health services were preferred over unguided programs. Unexpectedly, assumed associations between familiarity with Web-based self-help for health purposes or “e-awareness” and intentions to use e-mental health servi...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Acceptability of E-Mental Health Treatment Services for Psychological Problems: A Scoping Review

Apolinário-Hagen¹,

Kemper²,

Stürmer³

2017

JMIR Ment Health

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“…Keeping this in mind, many computer games developed to address the interest and necessity of autism children, since the games happened to be an attractive tool for intervention of children with special needs [8], [12]. The application of serious games is as a complementary element to traditional face-to-face psychotherapy [19]. Specialized games have developed over the recent years and there are many researchers are contributing for the development of educational and therapeutic games for the aid of special children.…”

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Development of a Therapeutic Mobile Application for Indian Autistic Children

Kanimozhiselvi*,

Kalaivani,

Poonguzhali

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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Autism is a serious, incurable mental disorder that hampers one's ability to interact and communicate. This disorder may be present as early as 18 months of age and can diagnose from early childhood. In recent times, one in every 68 children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Early diagnosis, social acceptance of kids suffering from this disorder and clearing misconceptions about the same is extremely important for social welfare. As of now, intervention is not of good quality in India and needs an institution building and professionalization to create real impact. Hence, it is necessary to provide autism intervention and therapies in school as well as in home to students from the age group of 2 to 16. Hence, there is a necessity to develop a mobile app, which will help the parents and teachers to train the autistic children. This mobile app will act as a therapeutic app and can offer help to caregivers in performing therapy and increase the time a child is engaged to therapy at reasonable cost.

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“…Recently, various interventions use electronic games (EG) in health and mental health, in a variety of diagnoses and therapeutic objectives [68,69].…”

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Rehabilitation Program for Deficit Awareness “The Trisquel”

Piñón-Blanco¹

2017

JPCPY

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SummaryThe consumption of psychoactive substances has been consistently associated with the presence of alterations in different neuropsychological processes. In recent years there is a growing interest in improving neurocognitive rehabilitation procedures as applied to the treatment of addictions. In this context arises therapeutic game "The trisquel" in order to address, in a more dynamic and closer, the treatment of cognitive and social rehabilitation of drug dependent patients. The Trisquel is a rehabilitation program awareness deficit in the format of board game with a dynamic similar to the popular trivial, that, after eight years of experience working with patients and professionals, can be considered a therapeutic tool useful. Helps reduce distances therapist. Patient, reinforces the group feeling, evaluates the cognitive functions of the participants. In addition, each professional can adapt it to their daily needs. Throughout this article will be described the justification, the antecedents, the sessions, the dynamics and the last advances of this therapeutic game.

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Acceptance of Serious Games in Psychotherapy: An Inquiry into the Stance of Therapists and Patients

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Public Acceptability of E-Mental Health Treatment Services for Psychological Problems: A Scoping Review

Public Acceptability of E-Mental Health Treatment Services for Psychological Problems: A Scoping Review

Development of a Therapeutic Mobile Application for Indian Autistic Children

Rehabilitation Program for Deficit Awareness “The Trisquel”

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