Step by Step / Therapeutic Game

In the last decades has occurred a significant progress in the development and validation of approaches to treatment of patients with of substance abuse. The designer had engaged psychologists, social workers,patients and family members in to creation of a board game named Step by Step.The game objective is to show all the difficulties that could arise in the pathway from dependence to recovery and help patients and family members to cope with them. The game recreates ties that were broken due to the addiction and give the users the opportunity to talk about difficult issues in a softer and pleasant way, where learning becomes more effective.