FAQs

Why do you list both Recreation Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation? Why not just one or the other?

RPG is an abbreviation for Role-Playing Game. Despite many misconceptions by media and the general public, the activity Role-Playing Gaming, has been show through decades of research to be able to provide many benefits to participants beyond just entertainment, including educational and therapeutic benefits. More information is provided below.

This is a challenging question to answer definitively, and may have to be updated over time, but here is a best estimate about, at least published in some form, who first started using role-playing games intentionally as a modality to achieve therapeutics goals (rather than just the incidental or accidental benefits from RPG participation)...

Here is a list of the RPG Research Project Patreon Supporter Individual Rewards.

Here is a list of the RPG Research Project goals for the Patreon fundraising.