Psychotherapy mediated by videogames

Jung, Johann; Gillet, Guillaume

doi:10.1080/00207578.2020.1847601

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“…The therapist should tune into the patient’s emotional experiences and system of representations, but it is equally important to listen when players speak through their in-game actions. For instance, a case study reported a teenager referred to psychotherapy for learning disabilities and relationship problems [ 105 ]. Interestingly, his style of play was heavily characterized by control and insistence on hygiene-related themes, revealing much more about the boy’s inner thoughts than initially reported.…”

Section: Therapeutic Process In Video Game Therapy and Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, his style of play was heavily characterized by control and insistence on hygiene-related themes, revealing much more about the boy’s inner thoughts than initially reported. For this reason, in-game actions represent an essential compass toward the patient’s symbolization of their lives into a storytelling approach [ 105 ]. The therapist can more effectively recognize such a creative and childlike narration by temporarily abandoning adult mental structures and rationality and rediscovering the traces of childish thinking still present within them, radicated on an emotional and fantastic level.…”

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Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach

2023

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Video games have been increasingly used as a form of therapy for various mental health conditions. Research has shown that video games can be used to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. One of the main benefits of video games in therapy is that they can provide a sense of engagement and immersion that traditional therapy methods may lack. Additionally, video games can teach valuable skills such as problem solving, decision making, and coping strategies. Video games can also simulate real-life scenarios, allowing individuals to practice and improve social skills in a safe and controlled environment. Furthermore, video games can provide feedback and track progress objectively and quantifiably. This paper proposes an approach, the Video Game Therapy® (VGT®) approach, where game experience is put at the center of the therapy in a tailored way, connecting the individual patient’s personality, the therapy’s goals, and the suggested type of video game through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).VGT®’s core assumption is that playing video games could facilitate patients in reaching conditions where traditional methodologies and therapeutic approaches could work best. VGT® was elaborated according to the Adlerian therapy vision and, consequently, the different phases of Adlerian therapy and VGT® match. Despite the use of video games in psychotherapy might have some adverse effects in specific cases, VGT® is currently used in three associations with positive results in promoting emotional experimentation and literacy, social feeling, sense of identity, and activating cognitive processes. Future developments include expanding the use of VGT® further to validate such results from a statistical point of view.

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Section: Therapeutic Process In Video Game Therapy and Toolsmentioning

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Section: Therapeutic Process In Video Game Therapy and Toolsmentioning

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Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach

2023

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“…Video games developed as an extension of the entertainment industry (De Schutter & Brown, 2016) but are now valued as a tool that positively impacts fields as diverse as education (Granic et al, 2014), healthcare (Jung & Gillet, 2021), military training (Rayner, 2012), disaster management (Weyrich, 2021), business marketing (Borowy, 2013; Reitman et al, 2020), corporate management (Kumar & Raghavendran, 2015), and tourism (Shaheer, 2022). Digital games have a style, format, and visual richness that is only matched by the diversity of experiences they provide to their users, such as fun, immersion, and challenge (Cairns et al, 2014; Gee, 2008).…”

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Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Bihari

Pattanaik

2023

Games and Culture

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Professional gaming is organized competitive digital gameplay supported by advertisers and businesses. With its rising popularity and spectatorship, virtual gaming as a profession is now a reality. The aim of this paper is to evaluate peer-reviewed articles from the past two decades that empirically examine gaming as a profession or the myriad facets of being a professional gamer published in scholarly journals. The themes that emerge from the results of the included studies ( n = 32) are (a) the socio-cultural appeal of gaming as a profession, (b) socio-psychological elements of pro-gamers’ everyday lives, and (c) the health and physiology of pro-gamers. It is found that the literature on health and physiology ( n = 14) overshadows other dimensions of pro-gaming in academic research. In conclusion, studies must reflect on gamers’ legal status as working professionals, their organizational contracts, and the legality of the industry country by country to fill the research gap.

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Playing with the Narrative of Mental Illness : Communication Beyond Serious Empathy games

Kreitler

2024

BiD: Textos Universitaris De Biblioteconomia I Documentació

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This essay focuses on the implicit narrative of mental illness communicated through the cultural rhetoric of serious games and empathy games. Games about mental illness are seen to promote a change in behavior and foster greater understanding by breaking down the boundary between the neuro-non-normative avatar and players. However, rather than cultivating empathy, these games reinforce notions of mental illness as the unknowable Other. Using Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods (2017), this essay demonstrates how the use of non-serious elements, changes to the narrative premise, and limited insight into the avatar’s mind create a new communicative situation. Oscillating between sameness and difference, the game shows mental illness as a normal part of life, of growing up and getting to know yourself and the people around you.

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Psychotherapy mediated by videogames

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach

Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach

Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Playing with the Narrative of Mental Illness : Communication Beyond Serious Empathy games

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