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Serious Games and the Gamification of Mental Health Interventions

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Trends and Applications of Serious Gaming and Social Media

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In this chapter, Boon and Fung seek to look into the challenges of mental health, the definition and classification of serious games, the history and development of gamification of mental health interventions in Singapore and the future considerations in the development of mental health interventions in this small Asian island nation.

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  1. Response, Early Assessment and Intervention in Community Mental Health (REACH), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health Singapore, Buangkok, Singapore

    Jillian Sok Teng Boon & Daniel Shuen Sheng Fung

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Boon, J.S.T., Fung, D.S.S. (2014). Serious Games and the Gamification of Mental Health Interventions. In: Baek, Y., Ko, R., Marsh, T. (eds) Trends and Applications of Serious Gaming and Social Media. Gaming Media and Social Effects. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-26-9_6

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