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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 LeadAdam LobelCategoryDesign | GamingProject statusCompleted
Fostering Emotional Competencies with Games in Classrooms
This project strives to create a suite of analog games to be implemented in classrooms. The goal of these games is to improve children's emotional competencies in three domains which past research highlights as being crucial for healthy development: emotion vocabulary, cognitive reappraisal skills, and children's theory of emotion.
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Adam Lobel
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Andrea Samson
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David Sander
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Owen Harris
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Jeremy Falger
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Isabela Granic
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Project LeadAngela SchuurmansCategoryAnxiety | DepressionProject statusCompleted
Dojo - A Videogame Intervention for Youth in Residential Care
Externalizing problems are the main reason youths are referred to residential care. However, often these youths also show co-morbid anxiety. This study aimed to test a videogame intervention (Dojo) that teaches youths relaxation-techiques in order to improve their emotion regulation.
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Isabela Granic
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Angela Schuurmans
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Project LeadEva AlblasCategoryBehavior RegulationProject statusCompleted
The Impact of Health Games on Implicit Attitudes Towards Food and Food Choice Behavior
Because of the observed overlap between obesity and substance abuse, excessive eating has been termed addictive behavior. We want to investigate whether video games can be used to modify automatic processes involved in eating behavior. The focus of this project is on a positive implicit attitude towards energy-dense food and automatic approach behavior.
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Eva Alblas
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Frans Folkvord
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Doeschka J Anschütz
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Jonathan van 't Riet
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Moniek Buijzen
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Isabela Granic
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Erik van den Berge
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Project LeadAnouk PoppelaarsCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
Facing the Challenge Together: a Social Game for Emotional Resilience
Our research aims to transform young people’s mental health by developing and testing a social game for resiliency when facing stress events. Working in collaboration with the Award winning studio Aardman Animations, we want to harness the important mental health implications of both social support and mindsets, to develop a fun and engaging intervention.
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Anouk Poppelaars
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Maaike Verhagen
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Isabela Granic
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Ken Koontz
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