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                                      RPG and Child Abuse Recognition & Intervention Strategies
                                    
 
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                                              Hawke Robinson
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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                                            RPG Research Project Updates
                                          
                                        
                                      
                                      
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                                      Using Therapeutic Role-Playing Gaming to Help in the Treatment of Sexual Abuse Victims
                                    
 
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                                            Sexual Assault / Abuse / Rape,
                                          
                                          
                                            News,
                                          
                                          
                                            Assault / Abuse
                                          
                                        
                                      
                                      
A Christian gamers podcast group calling themselves "Saving the Game" recently interviewed a representative of The Bodhana Group regarding A PROPOSAL for using role-playing games for therapeutic treatment of sexually abused children and adolescents, as well as the abusers.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Update correlative and meta-research information regarding role-playing gamers
                                    
 
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                                            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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                                      Very busy week! EWU, TSU, WSTRA, & WSU.
                                    
 
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                                            NOT Peer-reviewed,
                                          
                                          
                                            LG Living Games Conference,
                                          
                                          
                                            RPG Research Project Updates,
                                          
                                          
                                            TSU Texas State University
                                          
                                        
                                      
                                      
 I am taking a quick few minutes for a mental break to provide just a quick blurb in case you thought I fell off the planet... :-)
                                      
                                          
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                                      Interactive Complexity Coding
                                    
 
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                                            Medicare / Medicaid,
                                          
                                          
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Where this will be accepted is still unclear, but it is something I came across during my time with Play Therapy, that seems very appropriate for Recreation Therapy / Therapeutic Recreation (RT / TR) and possibly some forms of RPG Therapy. It might only be applicable for mental health clients. I ran it by several professors, and facilities managers, and they were intrigued, but unable to provide further clarification. I welcome additional feedback from others.
                                      
                                          
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                                      RPG as Therapeutic Recreation for People with Disabilities - Relevant Notes - Part 1
                                    
 
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Based on The Recreational Therapy Handbook of Practice, and WHO ICF (World Health Organization) (International Classification of Functioning). This will be edited periodically, and is only in a notes format for now. It is hoped to turn this into a more comprehensive document at a later date.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Harassment and Worse in RPG Industry & Community
                                    
 
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                                            Gender Bias,
                                          
                                          
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A blog article was posted to the CAR-PGA (The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games) mailing list today, regarding terrible behavior by the RPG industry & Community...
                                      
                                          
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                                      Old Research Repository
                                    
 
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This is RPG Research's older research repository. We are currently moving more than 3,000 content items (1 multi-page essay equals 1 content item) from this old site to our new repository at www.rpgresearch.com/research  . The new repository is better organized and formatted, but it takes months for our volunteers to move all this content from the old site to the new site, so we are keeping the old repository available until the move is complete.  All new research is being added to the new repository, no new research is being added to this old repository as of 2018.
                                      
                                     
                              
                              
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                                      RPG Research Status Update
                                    
 
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                                            Population: Incarcerated,
                                          
                                          
                                            Prisons Penitentiaries Law Enforcement,
                                          
                                          
                                            Population: Adults,
                                          
                                          
                                            Population: Teenagers,
                                          
                                          
                                            Potential RPG Research Question,
                                          
                                          
                                            Population: Autism,
                                          
                                          
                                            Population: Young Adults,
                                          
                                          
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                                            RPG Research Project Updates
                                          
                                        
                                      
                                      
A lot has happened over the past several months, and there is actually a backlog developing, so I thought I would take a minutes to organize the backlog, update folks on what has been completed, and look ahead to what is coming down the pipe. If there is anything I forgot to include, please let me know so I can integrate it into this article. Many of the items in the queue might unfortunately be stuck until the summer holiday from university. Consider this also my public TODO list...
                                      
                                          
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                                      Example Dialog regarding RPG Therapy on TheRpgSite.com
                                    
 
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There is an interesting thread regarding the Bodhana group and the use of role-playing games for therapy. I recently stumbled across it and have been enjoying the dialog. I thought I would share a snippet that might be helpful others to understand an example of how the use of RPG for therapy would be applied...
                                      
                                          
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