Therapeutic Use of Role-Playing Game (RPG) in Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Arenas, Daniel Luccas; Viduani, Anna; Araújo, Renata Brasil

doi:10.1177/10468781211073720

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“…This involves providing children with an understanding of teamwork skills in themed role-playing games through conversation, games and daily activities in the preschool. These are the skills to join teams: cooperative skills between team members, task performance skill of the team, conflict resolving skill of the team; team development skill (Arenas et al, 2022;Han, Catron, Weiss, & Marciel, 2005;Small World, 2018).…”

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Teamwork Skills Education in Themed Role-Playing Games in Preschool

Yen

Nho²,

Huyen³

2022

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This study aimed to investigate the current state of education on the development of children's cooperative abilities via the use of themed role-playing games in Dak Lak, Vietnam. The period between March through June 2019 was devoted to administering an online survey for data collection. The findings indicate that preschools have devoted attention, effort, intellect, and time to developing primary students' collaboration abilities. Despite this, the findings are still relatively low and do not reflect the proportional number of participants. The youngsters aged 5 to 6 years old have shown that the measures benefit their ability to collaborate with others. The youngsters are more engaged in the activity, taking the initiative, and showing enthusiasm for interacting with one another. The experimental and control groups were quite different regarding their ability to collaborate effectively. In comparison to the youngsters in the control group, those in the experimental group demonstrated superior collaboration skills on a more consistent and regular basis.

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Section: Theory Of Teamwork Skills Education For 5-6 Years Old Childr...mentioning

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“…• Freedom, voluntariness and independence: One of the features of the game is that children's freedom, voluntariness and independence are highly expressed. While playing, children are not dependent on practical needs; they play out of their own immediate needs and interests (Arenas, Viduani, & Araujo, 2022).…”

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Teamwork Skills Education in Themed Role-Playing Games in Preschool

Yen

Nho²,

Huyen³

2022

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“…One of the strategies used in the literature is the application of a behavioral assay, and one of the ways it can be applied is through games. Various authors have used tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) as tools in interventions, focusing on the development of a specific repertoire of intentional speech directed at others, with the aim of improving the quality of life of the participants (21). Katō (22) presented the results of two studies employing a TTRPG to promote social communication and efficacious leisure activity in a group of children and adolescents with ASD.…”

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“…Because of their motivational aspects and versatility of application, RPGs have has been used in various areas, including education (27), mental health (21,22,(27)(28)(29)(30)(31), and the analysis of their impact on pop culture (24,25).…”

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Social skills training with a tabletop role-playing game, before and during the pandemic of 2020: in-person and online group sessions

Henning,

de Oliveira,

de Andrade

et al. 2024

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundThe area of social skills is broad, in theory and in practice. For social skills training, various clinical practices have been applied in group sessions, as have motivational resources such as role-playing games (RPGs). In recent years, the need arose to assess the clinical impact of the pandemic. The objective of this study was to determine the impact that the pandemic has had on in-person and online social skills training.MethodsWe evaluated six subjects with autism spectrum disorder, with or without another, similar disorder, each of whom attended a total of 12 two-hour RPG sessions over a 12-month period. The original (Portuguese-language) version of the Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents was applied at three different time points (pre-, mid-, and post-intervention).ResultsAfter six in-person tabletop RPG sessions, there was an increase in the mean frequency scores and a decrease in the mean difficulty scores. However, during the pandemic, the remaining six sessions were conducted online and the effect was the opposite.ConclusionOur data indicate that there is a need for further studies assessing social skills training in online contexts.

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“…Emotions, relationship dynamics, mental and physical states all have the potentiality to bleed through the character into the player's life (Bowman, 2015). This can be used to teach people new skills through in-game interactions that-when guided by the rules of the game and the intent of the GM and the table-can create a space for real life behavioural change (Arenas et al, 2022).…”

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Broken Narratives: A Critical Analysis of Māori Reconnection To Their Culture Through Tabletop Roleplaying Games

Kingi¹

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<p>This thesis aims to create narrative structures and experiences for Māori who are disconnected from their culture to reforge that connection to their heritage through playing TTRPGs (Tabletop Roleplaying Games). Research on the modern Māori way of life and identity, as well as analysis of the current political landscape Māori live within in Aotearoa and the world will be a primary focus of this thesis and creative output. The many ways Māori identify in Aotearoa are and will continue to change. The ability to navigate those changes to seek and find belonging through the playing of TTRPGs is the main aim of this thesis. There are many types of TTRPGs, the emergent narratives of imaginative and collaborative storytelling create meaningful moments for players to live out scenarios they may not be able to in real life. The creative output of this thesis is a game that aims to create moments for Māori who identify on across the spectrum of connection to their culture to play out moments in their fictional character’s life, giving them agency in a fictional world where in the real world they may have none. The imagined moments shared in these stories live on in the minds of their players and affect them in meaningful ways throughout their lives. Qualitative research was gathered that highlighted the many identities of Māori across a spectrum of connection. Interviews and playthroughs conducted following the Kaupapa Kōrero conversation methodology guide the research. This thesis emulates through gameplay the conversations Māori have in their journey to reconnect to their culture. This thesis concludes that TTRPGs are an invaluable tool to help navigate the conversations one has when reconnecting with one’s culture</p>

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Therapeutic Use of Role-Playing Game (RPG) in Mental Health: A Scoping Review

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Teamwork Skills Education in Themed Role-Playing Games in Preschool

Teamwork Skills Education in Themed Role-Playing Games in Preschool

Social skills training with a tabletop role-playing game, before and during the pandemic of 2020: in-person and online group sessions

Broken Narratives: A Critical Analysis of Māori Reconnection To Their Culture Through Tabletop Roleplaying Games

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