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The Podcast Untenured Tracks interviewed me and several other therapeutic DMs, Dr. Megan Connell, Amelia Herbst, & Jamie Flecknoe, about how we use D&D in our various practices! Listen here: http://scatterbrainradio.com/blog/2020/06/15/e38-applied-gaming-and-gaming-as-therapy-w-dr-megan-connell-amelia-herbst-peter-jung-jamie-flecknoe/

I recently wrote [https://rollforkindness.com/building-community-through-d-d/] about how I put together a proposal to do Dungeons and Dragons groups for my primary job, a medicaid funded nonprofit family behavioral health agency. Eager to reach this population that generally can not afford social skills groups or group therapy, I was

The original round tableIn the time of COVID-19 and convention cancellations, most if not all opportunities for applied and therapeutic DMs to interact and network in person have been limited, and as such I have decided to start hosting regular DM round tables. The first one was more of a

Orcs is currently trending on twitter. From what I can gather, it's backlash after someone took a page from a 5e handbook stating that orcs were bloodthirsty due to genetics, and declared it racist. Since then, there has been a huge onslaught of (mostly white) dudes stating that orcs aren't

Yesterday, I ran a DM round table/training on using lesson planning tools for session planning. While it was a bit of an odd mix between a winding conversation between a bunch of therapeutic and applied DMs, there was also some structure around discussing ways to do better, directed session

As COVID-19 spreads, a lot of people are finding really creative ways to move their work and play online, but in a lot of cases, this feels like reinventing the wheel. This has absolutely been true with my teen social skills group, but yesterday I ran an amazing session without

One of the questions I get the most often, as far as running social skills groups is this: How do I get my players to talk to each other (and not me, the DM)? It's a valid question. I've had a lot of students in social skills groups who really