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Postby Denki » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:30 am

Goodmorning guys,

I recently got a job as a peer specialist and one of my functions is doing group therapy. My co-worker, also a peer specialist, has his own methods of doing groups. I, personally, like doing groups where we (the clients, I mean) talk and open up to each other. My co-worker also buys legitimate games, and since he doesn't really let me borrow them, I have to make up my own. Some games are easy: hangman, bingo, Jeopardy!, etc., etc.

Since I really don't have the money to buy similar games and the work doesn't pay a lot (though I adore the job), I make bootlegs :P Anyway, I'm getting off topic.

I made up a game yesterday that was REALLY popular with everyone and I didn't expect that. The game was essentially this: the clients are given scenarios where there is no right or wrong answer, and there is no extraneous information given (one such example is the "trolley problem"). They're given an answer based off of one of the two choices, generally having to give something up in the problem. I called it "What Would You Do?".

An example from the game is this:
"You're driving home and are low on gas. In your pocket you have $10.00, just enough money to buy gas and to only get home. As you're driving home, you see a young, bedraggled girl panhandling for money. You have no means of contacting anyone if you help her out. What do you do?"

I only did 12 questions, and borrowed some from the G.O.A.T. exam in Fallout 3 :wink: I should've made more questions, though since I was doing a trial run, I didn't.

So, my question is this:
What are some scenarios, similar to the above, that I could do?

It really sparked a conversation with everyone and opened a lot of people up. They all really enjoyed it and said they'd like to do this type of group again.

Any suggestions for "What Do You Do?" or ideas for similar games like it??

Thank you :)
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Re: Help with Group Therapy

Postby salted lipstick » Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:13 pm

That's quite a cool game!

I'm not very inventive with things like this but I wanted to suggest that you post this question in the Just For Fun forum because I think people there would like to come up with these types of scenarios and answer them too: just-for-fun/

They might give you some more ideas...
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Re: Help with Group Therapy

Postby Denki » Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:45 am

^_^ I was really surprised at how well it went over. Even the quietest clients we had in the group opened up about their past and it was really nice all around.
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