Dungeons & Dragons Therapy #16
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dessert listeners, today's episode we are going to play Dungeons & Dragons with the |
| 0:04.8 | Game to Grow folks, Adam Johns and Adam Davis in particular. |
| 0:09.0 | So let me start for the beginning for those of you who might be new to the podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | I had some students 12 years ago who I got to know kind of well and then eventually they |
| 0:20.9 | developed this organization called Wheelhouse Workshop after graduation or maybe while |
| 0:26.1 | they were still in school and it was Adam Johns who is one of my former students in |
| 0:32.5 | the Coupling Family Therapy program and Adam Davis, so Adam and Adam, Adam Johns, Adam |
| 0:37.1 | Davis. |
| 0:38.1 | Adam Davis was in the drama therapy program at my university, Antioch and they formed |
| 0:44.6 | this group, this organization back in the day in which they provided therapy to kids |
| 0:51.2 | using Dungeons & Dragons and other kinds of methods along those lines, minecraft, other |
| 0:57.9 | gaming, essentially roleplay gaming. |
| 1:01.2 | And what they found was that not only was it helpful to the kids to help them with emotional |
| 1:08.3 | regulation, with social skills, self-esteem, a lot of really important things, a lot of |
| 1:15.1 | kids and teenagers, young adults are really in need of. |
| 1:19.4 | But also the kids and young adults were desperate to come to therapy for Adam Johns, Adam Davis |
| 1:26.0 | and I when we treat kids a lot of the times, especially in the beginning, the kids and teens |
| 1:33.2 | do not want to come to therapy, they're being dragged there by their families, their parents, |
| 1:38.6 | and what they found with utilizing these other methods, Dungeons & Dragons in a group format, |
| 1:45.2 | but the kids not only liked therapy and tolerated therapy, but they loved coming to therapy. |
| 1:51.6 | And the venue really provided a lot of possibilities for therapy, for example, if I were to work |
| 2:00.4 | with an individual 13-year-old who is struggling with social skills, I might roleplay with them |
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