Game Therapy UK

1. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF FACTORS SUCH AS UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCY (INCLUDING DRUGS AND ALCOHOL); DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE ASSIGNMENT, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING BACK INTO SOCIETY). THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY, BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO, A. PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH COOPERATIVE GAME PLAY AND THERAPEUTIC GAMING. B. USING COOPERATIVE GAME PLAY AND THERAPEUTIC GAME PLAY, CO-DESIGNED WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO PROVIDE EDUCATION (SUCH AS IMPROVING ‘SOFT SOCIAL SKILLS’, BASIC LANGUAGE SKILLS, BASIC NUMERACY) TO THOSE GROUPS. THIS COULD INCLUDE AWARDING RECOGNISED QUALIFICATIONS IN THOSE SKILLS (SUCH AS AQAS IN BASIC LITERACY, NUMERACY, AND CREATIVE SKILLS). 2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF GAME THERAPY AND THERAPEUTIC GAMING BY THE FUNDING OR CONDUCT OF RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULT OF THAT RESEARCH.” FOR THE PURPOSE OF BOTH CLAUSES, WE DEFINE A. ‘THERAPEUTIC GAMING’ AS “THE INTENTIONAL USE OF GAMES (PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY COOPERATIVE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES) FOR THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL BENEFIT BY NON-CLINICIANS”. B. ‘GAME THERAPY’ TO MEAN “THE INTENTIONAL USE OF GAMES (PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY COOPERATIVE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES (RPGS) FOR THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL BENEFIT BY REGISTERED CLINICIANS SUCH AS PSYCHIATRISTS OR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SUCH AS CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS, DRAMA THERAPISTS ETC.