This Video Game Could Help Your Child Manage Anger and Stress
This Video Game Could Help Your Child Manage Anger and Stress
This Video Game Could Help Your Child Manage Anger and Stress
By Sofia Quaglia
October 19, 2021
Summary
Ten years ago, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital carefully crafted a video game that could respond to the physical state of the player in real-time through biofeedback.
A small clinical trial published in Frontiers of Psychiatry in September has shown that the game is effective at helping children regulate their anger and stress, both while they are playing the game and after.
At the end of their session, they were split into two groups to play the video game.
The Power of Gaming Kahn's team saw an opportunity to harness kids' motivation to do well in video games as a means to help kids learn to regulate their emotions while still reacting to a fast-paced virtual challenge.
"Then, rather than show frustration or anger if their mother was not scoring points, they would need to calm themselves down enough to then teach her how to do the relaxation exercise while engaged in the video game just as they had," Gonzalez-Heydrich says.
That said, Carney hopes that by learning to recognize their anger and regulate it, kids will be able to avoid the potential negative consequences of poorly controlled anger and stress.
They're also talking to professional game developers about how they could put the ideas behind RAGE-Control into games that will help kids work on these skills-and have a great time doing it.
Reference
Quaglia, S. (2021, October 19). This video game could help your child manage anger and stress. Retrieved December 03, 2021, from https://www.verywellhealth.com/video-game-anger-management-5205670