Slaying Dragons: The Therapeutic Value of Tabletop Gaming
Slaying Dragons: The Therapeutic Value of Tabletop Gaming
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2018-05-01
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Brown, Kimberly
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Tabletop role-playing games is a dynamic hobby in which players take on the mantle of a character they have created and collaborate with a game master to create adventure. The game itself offers a multitude of personal and social benefits to all players involved, which may enrich their lives long after they have left the table. It provides socialization and recreational enjoyment, improves role negotiation and impression management, allows players to experience elements that are beyond their reality, creates a safe space to test new elements of identity, promotes creative problem solving and builds critical thinking. Gaming is an environment where these skills can be tested and explored with minimal risk. I argue in this thesis that it can and should be used in a therapeutic setting.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States , openAccess