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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,
blog posting
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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Any causal differences on participants between heroic versus evil campaigns?
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Effects of RPG,
RPG Research Goal,
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If there are indicators that role-playing games have a causal impact on participants, attempt to determine if there are any differentiations in impact on test subjects between "heroic" and "evil" game campaign settings.
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Cooperative RPG Versus Competitive RPG
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Effects of RPG,
RPG Research Goal,
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Tabletop role-playing games are generally speaking a cooperative play situation (of course there are exceptions). LARP and video-game-based "RPG" are generally competitive. Does changing tabletop RPGs to more competitive approaches impact any of the potential therapeutic value compared to "normal" cooperative role-playing gaming?
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Health and obesity rates of different types of role-playing gamers? LARP, Computer-based, Tabletop.
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Effects of RPG,
RPG Research Goal,
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Another variable to consider when researching different RPG medium participants (LARP, Computer-based, Tabletop) is the physical health and conditioning of role-playing gamers...
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How “Dungeons & Dragons” saved my autistic son
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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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pdd / asd / autism spectrum,
anecdote
" D&D has always appealed to introverts with rich inner lives. For my boy, it was a lifeline to the outside world. Delani Bartlette, The Good Men Project"
Article from Salon.com archived here in case it disappears...
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Which RPG Therapy Book Cover do you Prefer?
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Role-Playing Gaming Therapeutic Recreation Handbook of Practice
Which of these three book cover mockups do you prefer (hypothetically of course)...
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RPG Research Status Update Video on Youtube Channel
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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RPG Research Project Updates
Just posted a status update video, 10 minutes long, providing a status update on RPG Research. Please check it out, and comment.
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Tabletop RPG Recreation Therapy Example Scenario - Visual Impairment
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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therapeutic role-playing game,
TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury,
Disabilities,
therapeutic rpg,
research,
blog,
rpg for therapy,
Disability: Visual Impairment / Blind,
blog posting,
visual impairment / blind
This is an excerpt from the RPG Handbook of Practice book I have been working on. This section is for clients with significant to complete visual impairment due to traumatic brain injury to the occipital lobe. It can be extrapolated for the whole range of visual impairments. The client wants to participate in a non-therapy-setting leisure activity of tabletop role-playing gaming. The Recreation Therapist will need to evaluate and write up the potential challenges and modifications that may be necessary for the client to participate in this activity with as little difficulty as possible....
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RPG Recreation Therapy Hypothetical Scenario - Bipolar Clients in Complex Interpersonal Interactions
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Disabilities,
therapeutic rpg,
research,
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bipolar,
rpg for therapy,
blog posting
As we continue through the course on Recreation Therapy for People with Disabilities at Eastern Washington University, we have various assignments to write up hypothetical scenarios with hypothetical clients. This is one with several types of scenarios with hypothetical bipolar clients using tabletop role-playing gaming as the core activity. This is a high level overview, rather than a detailed activity analysis.
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What is Question/Hypothesis of the RPG Research Observation Group 1?
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Potential RPG Research Question,
research,
blog,
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RPG Research Project Updates
I had a recent question on Facebook about my posting: "Finished session 5 with RPG Preliminary Observation group 1, using Ea d20 RPG in a Tolkien Middle-earth setting." The question was from Sarah Lynne Bowman, author of The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity. She asked: "What's the research question/hypothesis?"
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