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Therapeutic Gaming <
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The Tech Bloom ? Collaborative and Emergent Technologies Sarah
Rich<
http://www.worldchanging.com/sarah_bio.html>
[image: in_harris_1.jpg] As the San Francisco Chronicle puts
it<
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/INGS8I0VV434.DTL>,
the gaming industry is stereotypically perceived as "a gawky, geeky,
hormonal juvenile delinquent who has an unhealthy fascination and mercenary
interest in violence, combat, criminality, guns, porn, trolls, mutants,
explosions and splatter." No doubt. But as we've demonstrated here time and
again, gaming environments can be a staging ground for combatting corporate
corruption<
http://worldchanging.com/conveying%20humanitarian%20ideals</a>,%20<a%20target=>,
and learning <
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002919.html> about
political <
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004238.html>
conflict<
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002343.html>and
peacemaking <
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004417.html>. They can
even be an interactive approach to health and
healing<
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004169.html>.
The image here comes from a game developed and designed by Ari
Hollander<
http://www.imprintit.com/Home.html?ari>as a tool to help
phychotherapists treat patients with Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder resulting from having witnessed or survived terrorist attacks.
*Anecdotal evidence, [Skip] Rizzo and Hollander said, suggests that the
therapy is helpful for some patients. New programs are introducing tell-tale
aromas -- cordite, burning rubber, body odors -- to add to the
sensation...Game developers, meanwhile, are preparing for other therapeutic
possibilities [such as] games to address the effects of Alzheimer's disease
-- potentially a $100 million market. *
Continue reading "Therapeutic
Gaming"<
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