POSITIVE ACADEMY
Full title: Training for Mental Health Professionals based on Positive Psychology Methodologies
Duration: 2022 – 2024
Deliverable: SERIOUS GAME
FROM IDEA TO PROJECT
The project aims to increase the resilience skills of mental health professionals (MHPs) in Europe, through non-formal distance learning, with the objective of increasing their psychological resilience against occupational adversity and thereby improving the quality of mental health care. Smarted has the main role of developing the project’s serious game by managing the design of the digital learning environment, the coordination of the scenarios, the construction and implementation of the serious game regarding resilience and the evaluation of the tool.
THE PRODUCT DEVELOPED BY SMARTED
The Serious Game will help to simulate MHPs working conditions drawing on the digital storytelling of R1. Among others, it will touch on the topics of emotional contagion, secondary traumatic stress, burn- out, and compassion fatigue that are common among MHPs, especially during the pandemic. It will provide a space for reflection, experiential learning, and exchange of experiences. For example, it will simulate how it feels to work in a team of MHPs, who face the challenges of remote working, self-isolating and shielding. Then, the facilitators will link the Serious Game simulations or stories to the training and content of the platform (E- Kit) that addresses how to cope with working stressors and enhance resilience, e.g. through cultivating self-compassion.
PARTNERS WITH SMARTED
