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An Overview History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role Playing Gaming (2004)
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Effects of RPG,
RPG Research Essay,
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Originally written in 2004, and periodically tweaked over the years. After decades of using RPGs in educational settings, this was the paper that started the therapeutic focus and building of the RPG Research website. There are very few social table-top recreation activities available that are cooperative rather than competitive in nature. Role playing gaming is by design a cooperative past time, which in and of itself may have significant benefits in the world where everything is becoming competitive at all ages and levels of society...
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Utilizing Role-Playing Games In Social Skills Assessment and Intervention
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Jun 20, 2015
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A presentation put together by Dr. James D. Persinger, PhD., of Emporia Statue University in 2003 provides a summary of the history of Role-Playing in therapy, as well as some basic history of RPGs, and numerous tips in implementing RPG-based therapy in a scholastic setting.
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Role-playing history game gets students jazzed
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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archived article,
blog,
blog posting,
rpg for education
Archived from the USA Today site in case it disappears - USA TODAY visits a class at Barnard College "Reacting to the Past" - Robert Deutsch and Jason Allen.
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RT / TR, RPG Therapy vs. Therapeutic RPG
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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I was attending the Professional Issues in Therapeutic Recreation course today, we were going over a chapter regarding the history of Recreation Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation, and the ever-recurring battle over TR vs. RT. This triggered some thoughts regarding the use of a role-playing game (RPG) as a therapeutic intervention modality, namely "Role-playing game Therapy" versus "Therapeutic Role-playing gaming"...
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Update correlative and meta-research information regarding role-playing gamers
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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blog posting,
RPG Research Goal
Most of the existing research on role-playing gamers is dated from the 1980's and early 1990's. As an initial significant first step for the RPG Research Project, bring the correlative and meta-analysis data up to date.
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Wiki
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Hawke Robinson
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RPG Research Wiki Root Page
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2004 - RPGR-A00001 An Overview of the History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role-playing Gaming
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Sep 30, 2004
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last modified
Dec 08, 2022 10:53 AM
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Pending Review,
RPG Research Essay,
Archive,
Discipline: TR/RT
Role-playing gaming (RPGing) has its roots as far back as ancient history with the development of war-gaming. War-gaming is the simulation of combat strategies and tactics represented in reduced scale with various rules, often with some sort of randomizing agent such as dice or cards to add an element of “realistic” unpredictability. As long as there has been organized warfare, there appears to have been some form of war-gaming in every culture throughout history. Chess and the Chinese game Go both are very much based on war-gaming, but considered lacking by some because of the lack of unpredictability offered by “true” war-gaming using some degree of randomization.
The RPG Research Project Document ID #RPGR-A001-A-20120927A-CC
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Preference for competitive or cooperative games?
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Research Question / Discussion Topic
A question that came up from others elsewhere (social network poll): "How do you rather play games? Cooperatively, no preference, competitively?"
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Significant Progress on Paperwork for Pilot Research Study Using RPGs Within the Constraints of a University Setting
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Discipline: Neuroscience,
Setting: Academic/Classroom: College/University,
Population: Adults,
Aspect: Memory,
RPG Format: Tabletop,
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Function: Memory,
Potential RPG Research Question,
Effects of RPG,
RPG Research Goal,
research,
Function: Cognition,
News,
Goal: Intrinsic motivation for learning,
Aspect: Cognition,
RPG Research Project Updates,
RPG Research Project Roadmap / Goals,
Discipline: Cognitive Neuroscience,
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Discipline: Education / Formal Classroom Setting,
rpg for education
Significant progress made today in the paperwork process for putting together the study on "Efficacy Assessment of Role-playing Games as an Instructional Technique within the Constraints of a University Academic Setting from the Neuropsychology Perspective"...
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Comments on Pat Robertson's Style of Christian Stigma Against Dungeons & Dragons and Role-playing games
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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RPG Research Module
Comments on the recent comments by Pat Robertson on the 700 Club regarding his claims about the supposed harm cause by Dungeons & Dragons (completely disproved by 30+ years of research)...
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