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Disciplines from recreation therapy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, and many other perspectives. RPG Research is a project of RPG Therapeutics LLC, and is the umbrella name under which the projects, website, communities, and other resources are identified.
To date, this is a non-profit project founded (and funded) by William Hawkes-Robinson, with the helpful support of many others in the community.
This website is dedicated to supporting role-playing game research in general, and any other individuals or organizations interested in sharing research information about the therapeutic or educational aspects of role playing gaming.
Currently this site is mostly working as a portal/aggregation/repository of information related to these topics.
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The overall Project Mission Statement is:
1) To clearly establish, through rigorous scientific testing, the effects of all forms of role-playing gaming (tabletop, live-action, computer-based, and solo adventure books/modules) on participants. In addition to determining the potential relevance of correlated factors, significant emphasis is focused contributing to the body of causal research information.
2) Based on established research, using relevant evidence-based and theory-based approaches, design, develop, and implement intervention programs using various forms of role-playing games as a therapeutic and/or educational modality by providing services utilizing role-playing games (and music) to achieve these goals.
Prior to 2006, most of these studies have relied solely on meta-research, correlative data, individual case studies, or very small sample groups, and do not clearly prove causality. Even the studies since 2006 are still within these limited approaches.
Most of the existing meta and correlative data currently accumulated appears to strongly indicate many possible therapeutic and educational benefits for participants, but this has not yet been clearly delineated through rigorous scientific experimental research, observation, clear metrics, controlled groups, large samples, and longitudinal tracking.
Role-playing gaming overlaps with a number of other domain benefits, specifically recreation, education, therapeutic, and socialization, as illustrated in the Venn diagram below.
The therapeutic disciplines would likely map well to cognitive-behavioral, social, and therapeutic recreation methodologies. This would be a natural development combining some of the aspects of well-established role-playing therapy and game/recreation therapy together becoming role-playing game therapy.