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Serious Video Games as Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis

Danilina, O; Cox, A; Fonseca, A; Johnson, S; (2017) Serious Video Games as Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis. In: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver CO. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Psychosocial interventions for people with psychosis, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, are an important and effective therapy to prevent relapses and assist with normal day-to-day functioning. However, there is a significant lack of provision of these therapies for this group, due largely to a lack of resources. Digital interventions offer promise in terms of increasing access to psychosocial interventions without the need for a large increase in resources. However, it can be challenging to ensure that people engage with therapies via digital means appropriately. This paper identifies existing examples of serious videogames for psychosis and highlights a number of challenges in developing future examples. Our future research will focus on investigating whether the development of serious videogames that embed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy may provide effective, engaging and accessible ways to sustain and improve mental health.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Serious Video Games as Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis
Event: CHI 2017. 2nd Symposium Computing and Mental Health, 2017
Location: Denver, Colorado, US
Dates: 06 May 2017 - 11 May 2017
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3027063&picked=...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Mental health, psychosis, serious video games
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570518
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