The therapeutic use of games - DVRCV

The therapeutic use of

games in

groupwork

when, why, and how to use them Includes a section on training games for mental health, welfare and education professionals

Naomi Audette and Wendy Bunston

The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service, Victoria

The therapeutic use of

games in

groupwork

Naomi Audette and Wendy Bunston

The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service, Victoria

The therapeutic use of games in groupwork ? RCH MHS 2006

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The therapeutic use of games in groupwork ? RCH MHS 2006

Published by The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service, Victoria, Australia, January 2006.

ISBN XXXXXXXX

? Copyright The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service, Victoria, Australia, 2006.

The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service welcomes use of this publication within the constraints of the Copyright Act, 1968 and provided acknowledgment is made to the source.

Requests and inquiries for reproduction may be directed in writing to: The Manager, Community Group Program The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service 50 Flemington Street, Flemington, Victoria 3031.

All information and data (including graphics) is provided by The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service (RCH MHS) and unless otherwise noted is copyright of RCH MHS.

Disclaimer: The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service does not claim ownership or authorship of all the games noted in this manual, but recognises that the majority of the games cited are already used widely within the general population and may be a derivative, or replication of existing games with a variation in the name, rules or descriptions given.

Note: Any monies raised by the sale of this book are immediately fed back into the service delivery programs of The Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service.

Further information about the Community Group Program is available online at: .au/mhs/services/index.cfm?doc_id=1071 or at travancoresch.vic.edu.au

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About the authors

Naomi Audette BA (Psych) GDMD, DDT, professional member IDTIA, DTAA is a dance movement therapist currently completing her masters research. She specialises in developing and running dance movement group therapy interventions with children and adolescents with a range of mental health issues at the RCH MHS Community Group Program and AFVP (Addressing Family Violence Programs). Naomi draws on her wealth of experience and creativity as a dancer, performer and Clown Doctor (`Dr Polly Waffle') to engage and play with clients and train professionals.

Wendy Bunston BSW, MaFamTher, is manager of the RCH MHS Community Group Program and the RCH MHS AFVP and is currently undertaking further tertiary studies in organisational dynamics. She has specialised in working with children and adolescents considered at `high risk' and has published in the areas of child protection, childhood trauma, child / adolescent sex offending and specialist groupwork interventions. She is also in great demand as a trainer and public speaker.

Also contributing games to this manual has been: RCH MHS Peta Millard (social worker) Tara Pavlidis (social worker) Paul Leyden (psychiatric nurse)

Travancore School Stephanie Shanahan (teacher) Amity Czechowski (teacher/social worker) Tracey Cole (teacher)

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Contents

Introduction

Foreword

6

About us

7

The CGP

Introduction

8

Using this manual

Using games in groupwork

8

It's how you play the game

Why we play

9

Recognising the importance of play

Groups

4

The therapeutic use of games in groupwork ? RCH MHS 2006

Issues to consider

10

when running groups

1. Group logistics

10

Group size

Group length

Age of participants

Confidentiality (and its limitations)

Competitive games

2. Group stages

10

Warming

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

Mourning

Transforming

3. Dynamics of individual sessions 12 Warm-up Release of energy Theme Bringing it all together Closure

4. Space considerations

13

Circle formation

Line formation

Cluster formation

Dispersement formation

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