“Guilty of Talking Too Much”: How Psychotherapists Gamify Therapy

Tochilnikova, Elina; Patnaik, Amrit; Alsebayel, Ghada; Narayan, Uttkarsh; Coeytaux, Andrew; Ramdin, Valeria A.; Harteveld, Casper

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“…Particularmente, la evidencia muestra que el uso de aplicaciones gamificadas ha permitido mejorar la adherencia al tratamiento para las terapias cognitivo conductuales (Brown et al, 2016). Igualmente, esto también coincide con la popularización de aplicaciones móviles para el autocuidado cognitivo y emocional de los pacientes, con o sin acompañamiento del terapeuta; no obstante, estas aplicaciones tienden a ser puntuadas de manera negativa y se presentan pocas opciones amigables para el usuario (Alhuwail et al, 2020), así como también se encontraron estudios que mezclan las disciplinas de la terapia psicológica y el diseño de videojuegos para la creación de aplicaciones con mayor efectividad (Tochilnikova et al, 2022).…”

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Transformación digital de la atención psicológica: estado actual de la telepsicología en Colombia

Romero Guzmán,

Solano León,

Osorio Ospina

2023

Psicoespacios

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La interacción constante entre el desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (tic) y la prestación de servicios en salud conlleva, intrínsecamente, expectativas sobre sus potencialidades y reflexión sobre sus limitaciones. La transformación digital de la atención psicológica puede ser entendida como parte de la progresiva digitalización de los servicios en salud, y de las nuevas tendencias en telesalud. La masiva migración de atención sanitaria a los ambientes virtuales por las medidas de aislamiento por el covid-19 hizo, a su vez, repensar los desafíos de los profesionales en psicología frente a la adopción de estas herramientas y los nuevos modos de atención basados en ellas. Se realizó un proceso de exploración, mediante revisión narrativa y crítica de la literatura acerca del estado actual de la telepsicología, considerando las publicaciones sobre la efectividad de la atención telepsicológica y la adopción de las tecnologías emergentes para complementar, automatizar o replantear los procesos de terapia y asesoramiento. La telepsicología, que aparece en medio del interés renovado por el futuro de la atención sanitaria y telesalud, se debate entre la paradoja de la expansión del acceso a servicios en salud mental junto a la exclusión de amplios sectores sin acceso a conectividad. Se concluye que se requiere una mayor investigación al respecto, a la vez que una discusión que fundamente las políticas que impulsen una reducción de las brechas de acceso a tic a la par de las que ya existen en acceso a salud mental.

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Transformación digital de la atención psicológica: estado actual de la telepsicología en Colombia

Romero Guzmán,

Solano León,

Osorio Ospina

2023

Psicoespacios

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“…Initial reviews suggest that applications of gamification to medical training increase subject interest and provide opportunities for intentional clinical reasoning exercises (Krishnamurthy et al , 2022), but despite this, their application to counselling training remains under-researched. At present, only client-oriented gamified systems have emerged in relation to encouraging users to adopt in-person counselling (Piao and Joo, 2022), employing psychotherapists as designers of gamified interventions (Tochilnikova et al , 2022) and as a means of delivering treatment, e.g. exposure therapy (Lindner et al , 2020).…”

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“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

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Patel

Gavin

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Purpose Self-efficacy is the bridge between theoretical knowledge of counselling and practical application of effective techniques (Akinlolu and Chukwudi, 2019). Furthermore, risk-assessment and management are fundamental components of counselling training and self-efficacy in these areas is central to ethical practice. Gamification represents an opportunity to increase motivation encouraging users to engage with serious content via an entertaining medium. This study aims to present two studies concerning an outline of the development process and an initial evaluation of “Perspective: Counselling Simulator”, a gamified training tool for developing and enhancing self-efficacy in risk-assessment skills in trainee counselling students in the UK. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents the development and initial user-evaluation of “Perspective”, as well as an initial evaluation of the game’s capacity to deliver risk-assessment education in a group of UK-based trainee counsellors to British Association for Counselling and Psychology (BACP) standards. Findings Firstly, mid-development assessment of a prototype-version of the game produced a good system usability score and positive user-feedback, while identifying areas for further improvement. Secondly, data relating to an initial evaluation of the efficacy of the game suggest that the game in its current form is significantly improved in terms of system usability and produces descriptive, albeit not statistically significant improvements to self-reported self-efficacy. Additional feedback was provided by users and further development and evaluation is planned. Originality/Value This paper represents, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first of its kind in developing and evaluating a gamified tool with accessibility and scalability for teaching and consolidating risk-assessment skills of UK counselling students in-line with BACP standards.

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“…As one study emphasized, "Participatory design and its methods is a highly productive research approach guiding the design of solutions to patient's problems and changes to clinical practice" [30]. It can also have the side benefit of removing negative stigmas associated with certain ideas or treatments, and helping end-users advocate for their own vision of the product or industry [31]. Additionally, PD provides a useful canvas for educated speculation, where participants can imagine and create "alternative sociotechnical narratives that challenge our current relationship with reality" [7].…”

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“…The formal portion of the study adopts a participatory design (PD) approach. PD entails a partnership with experts in the field of physical therapy [30,31], where advice and feedback are collected and the design of the product is improved through a collaborative design research process. The information collected through the PD-structured interviews with domain experts are analyzed, categorized, and used to start designing an original environment for Simulacra, the VR prototype created by the researcher.…”

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Building simulacra: gamified physical therapy for VR

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Physical therapy has lagged behind other fields in healthcare in the adoption and integration of emerging technologies and new media tools in clinical practice. However, the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of telehealth and virtual medicine, and increased accessibility to virtual reality (VR) headsets like the Meta Quest have created an opportunity to revitalize the field and kickstart progressive thinking for rehabilitation. Games like Supernatural and businesses such as XRHealth are actively combining VR technology with traditional rehabilitation protocols in gamified designs that are both fun for users to engage with, and more or less supported by rehabilitation sciences. Adopting participatory design as its method, this study gives a platform to domain experts in the field of physical therapy to envision the future of physical therapy and supply ideas and suggestions for VR rehabilitation applications. We first examine problems in the physical therapy field, including both clinician burnout and barriers of access for patients, then engage physical therapists in discussions about these issues and potential ways VR technology can provide solutions. Some of the design elements proposed by the therapists are integrated into a design prototype named Simulacra, which serves as a possible blueprint for future game design and development. The ultimate aim here is to spark more progressive conversation about emerging technologies in the field of rehabilitation, and make contributions to the growing list of effective design principles for physical therapy in VR. Results indicate a strong curiosity towards VR and a desire from physical therapists to see more technology integrated into their work and improve the healthcare they are able to provide. The interdisciplinary line of questioning used in this study was welcomed with open arms by the domain experts, and future work can take the conclusions here and apply them in functional prototypes to be tested with both physicians and patients.

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“Guilty of Talking Too Much”: How Psychotherapists Gamify Therapy

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Transformación digital de la atención psicológica: estado actual de la telepsicología en Colombia

Transformación digital de la atención psicológica: estado actual de la telepsicología en Colombia

“Development and evaluation of perspective: counselling simulator”: a gamified tool for developing risk-assessment skills in trainee counsellors

Building simulacra: gamified physical therapy for VR

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