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Digital storytelling and video-game-based mental-health interventions

Published: 13 December 2022

Headshot of Manuela Ferrari

Strongly committed to enhancing access to care, treatment and client engagement with digital-health-intervention services, HBHL-funded researcher Manuela Ferrari—Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Â鶹ԼÅÄ—is developing a unique research program that uses digital narratives, including video-game-based interventions, for mental health treatment and anti-stigma campaigns.

Thanks to HBHL funding (as well as funding from provincial and federal programs, and industry partners), Ferrari was able to set up the Ludic Mind Studio, a digital-media and mental-health studio that explores the role technology plays in mental-healthcare settings. As Ferrari describes it, Ludic Mind is “a place where art and science come together.â€

Located at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Ludic Mind focuses on three areas of research and development: digital interventions, e-assessment and monitoring and digital education. The studio aims to increase ease of access and quality of care for patients, as well as create a new model for mental-healthcare services enhanced by digital technologies.

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