Boxed-In: The Enclosure Experience
Boxed-In: The Enclosure Experience is a powerful one-of-a-kind event to bring awareness to COVID’s impact on mental health, depression, and isolation benefitting Take This.
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Jargon Schmargon: Social Identity
Read MoreIn this episode of Jargon Schmargon, we will explore the concept of social identity. I’ve previously talked about “Gamer” social identity in a previous episode of Jargon Schmargon, but in…
Our Mission
Take This works to decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry.
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Distortions in time perception in the post-COVID19 era
Read MoreWhat is time anymore? Do you find yourself unsure what day it is? What month? Or even what year? Well, it’s not just you; our perception of time has changed.…
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Research Review: Live Streams on Twitch Help Viewers Cope With Difficult Periods in Life
Read MoreIn this episode of Research Review, we going to be tackling a 2020 study published in the Frontiers special issue on digital games and mental health entitled Live Streams on…
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Take This Stands in Solidarity with AAPI Communities
Read MoreA Statement from Take This Mental health challenges in the US disproportionately affect marginalized populations, due to the daily stressors of both covert and overt forms of exclusion and hatred.…
Upcoming Events
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Boxed-In: The Enclosure Experiment
A powerful one-of-a-kind event to bring awareness to COVID’s impact on mental health, depression, and isolation benefitting Take This.
For more information visit: https://parkerboxedin.com/
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#ParkerBoxedIn – D&D Game
430 pm PT
Parker will be joined by Matt Lillard, CypherofTyr, Gabe Hicks, and Tim Hickson – DM’d by Dr. B
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#ParkerBoxedIn – Take This Team Appearance
430-6pm PT
Join Kelli Dunlap, PsyD, MA & R. Boccamazzo, PsyD
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Shifting Creativity
10 AM PT with Dr. B
In the last year, the game industry has seen a necessary but unprecedented shift in light of the pandemic and forced many of us to alter our established creative processes. Many existing talks have focused on how employees have made the shift to working from home, but what about the studio processes themselves and its effects on output both in terms of quantity and quality? Our panel of experienced, international game professionals will share their stories and experiences about how these shifts impacted their studio processes and may have even resulted in increased creativity.
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