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The benefits of gamification for mental health
The Uses Of Gamifying Counselling And Mental Health Therapy.
With the pandemic crisis of Covid-19, the world has been forced to embrace the various possibilities of 21st-century technology in its totality. If the numerous technological options weren’t a part of every aspect of daily life before the crisis, then they are most certainly now.
And with the new ‘working from home’ culture now being the norm, there has also risen the likely need for providing aid to those who cannot cope with it as well as others can. As many may feel disconnected, isolated and possibly suffer from a form of cabin fever after being in lockdown for an extended period of time.
Before the crisis, technology and its obsessive features were seen as negatives, but now there is an acknowledgment of their ability to distract and support those who feel isolated. I’ve always felt that a little bit of gaming can improve your mood, and I am glad that others are discovering this as well.
I’ve covered the benefits that gaming and gamification have in other posts before. But those have usually been focused on specific aspects of therapy and how gamification can be used to aid those aspects. In this piece, I would like to take a somewhat broader look at the overall idea of using gaming…
