Beyond Entertainment: The role of Gaming in Mental Resilience
What is the positive power of play? And how can we use it to support our mental health?
This is a new concept of therapeutic gaming, or “medicinalisation” as coined by Ryan Douglas during the Games for Change talk on mental health and gaming in August. Douglas expressed the complexities of designing a new sector in the gaming industry founded in therapeutic research and made solely for the gamified therapy market. He also shared just how diverse, accessible and powerful therapeutic gaming could be for mental health around the world. This process of “finding the fun” while ensuring the therapeutic tools remain at the core of these new gaming concepts is explored in detail during the Games for Change talk.