Serious game based therapeutic: Towards therapeutic game design model for adolescence

Serious games are considered as powerful tools in learning and instructional purpose. Besides that, serious game also gains its own popularity among children and adolescence. Given the wide popularity of serious game, therapists realize the advantages of using games as the assistive tool in psychotherapy so called therapeutic game. However, the lack of available comprehensive guideline for design and development of therapeutic game is still a barrier to the game developers to produce a high quality therapeutic game. Henceforward, this research aims to propose a design model by integrating core elements of selected therapeutic approach that is cognitive behavior therapy. The main issue in psychotherapy is engagement of adolescents into psychotherapy. To address this problem, the proposed model also integrates player experience as the essential element, which is highly related with engagement. The proposed model is derived from a comparative study of ten game design models.