Mental Health and Gaming w/guest Dr. Bean of Geek Therapeutics - Gaming Podcast
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What are the benefits and harms of gaming?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome back to the Video Gamers Podcast. Video games are one of the most immersive forms of entertainment available. For millions of people around the world, they serve as entertainment, a hobby, or an escape. But with so many of us spending so much time in front of the screen, it can be difficult to understand what underlying benefits or harm we might be exposing ourselves to. Today, we are diving into the intersection between mental health and gaming with a truly epic guest. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, John, and joining me today is a guest that is literally changing the game when it comes to mental health. A licensed psychologist, researcher, and founder of Geek Therapeutics, it's Dr. Anthony Bean. Dr. Bean, welcome to the show. How are you?
I'm doing pretty good, pretty good. Excited to be here.
Yeah, excited to have you. People who know me will know that this particular topic is something that's very personal to me. So I am really excited that you took the time out of your day to dive into this. But before we get going in some of the discussions here, can you tell me a little bit about yourself and about Geek Therapeutics?
Absolutely. So I am a licensed psychologist. I'm actually licensed in about 35 different states. Like a true license, not like a... There's something in our field called PsychPact. I'm not part of that. I actually have like the actual real license across about 35 different states.
35.
I'm 15 away from getting my entire Pokedex done. Just so we're on the same clear. I'm 15 away. Got it. And it's been a lot of fun. It's been very trying in some cases because every state does something a whole little bit different. And their rules and regulations... are very identical to other people in other states. However, they're interviewing and their, um, application process is wildly different. And some of them are wildly outdated, um, and in a lot of crazy ways. So I I'm, I'm licensed in a lot of different states. I see a lot of people I'm, uh, what you would call kind of a concierge psychologist. At this point, I go to different states and do a lot of psychological assessments, cuz I'm trained in neuropsychology, autism assessment. um, divergent testing, um, academic stuff and everything like that. All of those things, uh, are being pulled in lots of different States by experts because there's, there's not a lot of people who know how to do it really well.
And so that's one of the reasons I got licensed in all of those, uh, different States and find myself to be obviously very busy, but we, we also, uh, I would imagine. So we also love what we do at geek therapeutics and, uh, That's actually one of my major loves of what we do here, of incorporating geek culture into therapy. Geek Therapeutics is a heck of a company. The reason is because we have a whole education component to it where we'll teach people how to use geek culture in therapy, how to use it in your life to better understand yourself. That's one arm of our stuff. We have a research arm. where we actually do research, evidence-based research, utilizing geek culture in therapeutic contexts. We've gotten quite a few studies published off of that.
Then we have a publishing arm where we do all of our evidence-based reading and kind of fun readings, like our psychology series of different things. So we've got like D&D, Zelda, Pokemon, all the different types of psychology books that we do that are based upon a lot of educational components, but are like... I would call them easy readers. Sure. Just because they're fun. They're fun to do. A bunch of essays and things like that. And then we have the therapy side where we do the psychological assessment and therapy practices across all these different states. And we have a physical location, two physical locations in Texas, one in Colorado and one in Virginia. Wow.
Crazy. Thank you for sharing that. That sounds like a lot of work, Dr. Bain.
My days are never boring. I can tell you that.
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