Car News

From Purple Pawn comes the brief but positive story about an
organization called Romach in Raanan, Israel that uses role-playing
games as a form of therapy for troubled youth:

" The organizers have enlisted a psychiatrist and some therapists
for the project. They trained them as to how RPGs work (their RPG of
choice is Warhammer Fantasy; 4e is too combat oriented) and they
received training on how to run the sessions to ensure that each child
encounters situations that can help them work through issues. The
sessions, and the club, look nothing like therapy, which is the
point."

This is refreshing news coming from Israel - some of you may remember
an article from 2005 (http://theescapist.com/archive-IDF.htm) about
how the Israeli Defense Force considers roleplayers a security risk,
and how soldiers who admit to playing Dungeons & Dragons are "sent to
a professional for an evaluation, usually a psychologist."

It seems like Romach is sort of a logical response to this sort of
ignorance - especially since, as the Purple Pawn article suggests,
there are plans to expand the program to give leadership training to
the military.

Read the full article here - http://www.purplepawn.com/2011/09/romach-using-roleplaying-as-social-therapy/
- and here's hoping we'll see a lot more about this!

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