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RPG Research Project Poster for WorldCon 73 (Sasquan) 10 years summary of research.

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Presented for "Super Science Saturday" at WorldCon 73 in the exhibition hall. Providing a summary overview of 10+ years research on the effects of all forms of role-playing games: tabletop, live-action, choose your own adventure, & computer based. Includes summaries of Mission & Vision statements, more than 20 project goals, existing and planned program plans using RPG as an intervention methodology to achieve educational and/or therapeutic goals. Includes mostly The RPG Research Project related projects, but also some listings for other related projects from others, and in other countries such as Israel and Denmark. Populations covered include: * Autism Spectrum (ASD) toddlers, youth, & adults. * Traumatic Brain Injury recovery (TBI). * The Deaf community. * At-risk youth
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A natural development combining some of the aspects of well-
established role-play/drama therapy and recreation therapy combine
together becoming role-playing game therapy
Participation in role-playing gaming
overlaps with a number of other domains
including: recreation, education,
therapeutic, and socialization.
The potential for RPG therapy to develop
as a distinct treatment modality is also a
reasonable possibility considering the
strong partial overlap with many existing
treatment domains, while still having
unique characteristics that could
potentially offer solutions the other
domains may not have been as effective
with some clients.
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TPO = Terminal Program Objectives. EO = Enabling Objectives (examples)
TPO 1: Demonstrate ability to initiate, maintain, and end communication with activity peers
EO 1.2: Clients ability to demonstrate maintaining appropriate communication skills with other participants.
TPO 2: Demonstrate cohesion in a common group activity
EO 2.2: Clients ability to demonstrate maintaining appropriate participation in cooperative group activity.
TPO 3: Participant demonstrates use of gross motor skills and functions.
EO 3.4: Clients ability to demonstrate controlled jumping, hopping, and balancing.
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Behavioral therapy
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Game therapy
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Gestalt therapy
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Therapy Overlaps
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“Some focus
on what they believe
to be the three major
functions that role-
playing games serve:
community building,
problem-solving, and
identity alteration.”
(Sarah Lynne
Bowman, Ph.D.)
From Gamers 3: Hands of Fate by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment Creative Commons 2013
From The Gamers 3: Hands of Fate by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
Creative Commons 2013
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