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Can computer games improve mental health?

People Fixing the World

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Anger Management Strategies - How Do You Use Video Games in Therapy?

There's some games that are really good at people angry. And so has a great opportunity to practise those kinds of therapeutic skills. I was introduced to a boy who had been to four or five other therapists because he was having anger and acting out issues, some defiance issues. He would not speak to any other therapist. So i noticed on his teasher it said, all day i dream about video games. Then i asked him which one he was playing,. whether it was black ops too, which would be the older version or the latest modern warfare that had come out. When he realized that i spoke his language, that i recognized his passion and his interest in that particular culture, i couldn

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