Mental Health Champion: Anxiety

Mental Health Champion is an educational role-playing game that encourages open conversation about mental health. In this game, players learn to recognize and manage symptoms of anxiety through interactive stories and mini-games. The game teaches emotional coping strategies, common treatments for generalized anxiety disorder, safety planning, and ways to navigate through mental health resources.

Target Audience:

Recognize and manage anxiety while learning emotional coping strategies.

Reviewed & Endorsed By:

Anne M Frederickson, MD
Board Certified in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Clinical Director, Children's Hospital of New Jersey / RWJBarnabas Health

Game Objectives

Introduction

Players meet Zoe and first open up the discussion about mental health. Then, players receive an overview of anxiety disorders, including: 1) definition of an anxiety disorder vs. typical worrying, 2) types of anxiety disorders part I, 3) types of anxiety disorders part II and comorbidities/associations, 4) combined medical/behavioral therapy, 5) mental health resources available.

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