Projects
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Project LeadAniek WolsCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
Are Improvements in Anxiety Associated with How Children Play MindLight?
The video game MindLight has been found to be an effective anxiety prevention program (see project: MindLight - Childhood Anxiety Prevention). However, we don’t know whether the clinical techniques incorporated in the game were responsible for the observed changes in anxiety symptoms. In this project we examined how children play MindLight, to what extent they interact with the clinical techniques in the game and how that relates to their anxiety improvements.
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Aniek Wols
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Elke Schoneveld
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Isabela Granic
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Project LeadAngela SchuurmansCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
Dojo - A Videogame Intervention to Decrease Anxiety and Externalising Problems in Youth
Many youth are having problems with regulating their emotions, which could - over time - result in anxiety and/or externalizing problems. Two projects tested the videogame intervention Dojo that teaches youth relaxation techniques in order to improve their emotion regulation. One project focused on preventing the exacerbation of anxiety among adolescents in high-schools. The other projects focused on youth with externalizing problems - often with co-morbid anxiety - in residential care.
Project Team-
Isabela Granic
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Angela Schuurmans
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Project LeadGEMH LabCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusPreparation
Reducing Stress Through Virtual Social Support
People with large social networks on average live longer, happier, less stressed lives. We can potentially leverage video games and virtual spaces to increase the experience of social support and impact daily stress and anxiety. Therefore, this project aims to show that virtual social support can lower stress, and potentially impact stress coping behaviours.
Project Team-
Isabela Granic
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Marieke van Rooij
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Maaike Verhagen
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Ken Koontz
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Erik van den Berge
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