Episode 29: Role-Playing Games in Psychotherapy: A Practioner’s Guide

After listening today's episode make sure you head on over to  @therapybookspodcast to learn about the latest giveaway. *The information shared in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. This weeks episode is for mental health professionals. In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler interview's Daniel Hand about his book Role-Playing Games In Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide.  Daniel shares about role playing games (aka RPG's), what they are and how they can be useful in therapy.   Some highlights from the episode: (1:30) What role playing games are (3:45) How Daniel began to merge role playing games and therapy (8:00) What using RPG’s in therapy can look like. (12:33) Daniel begins to explain what is in the book. The beginning of the book which where one can learn about RPG's.  He also shares about taking the best parts of RPG and applying it to your client work.  (14:03) We begin to discuss theory and how it can be applied to RPG’s (18:36) Importance of supervision and ethics when playing RPG's in therapy. Author: Daniel Hand is an author, game designer and therapeutic counsellor in private practice.  His work as appeared in venues such as  Tales of Ruma, Therapy Today, DEKHO!, the Journal of the Burma Star Association and the Popular Culture Psychology series. He regularly speaks on the uses of gameplay and story telling in psychotherapy. You can connect with Daniel at his website  www.monomythcounselling.co.uk; or you can find him on Youtube @RPGTherapist.