Thérapie cognitive et comportementale et thérapie positive par le jeu : une étude pilote comparative

This pilot study underlines the fact that the new positive serious play interventions appear to have similar effects to a classical CBT intervention. The major difference between the two strategies is that PSP seems to target primarily psychological (authentic) well-being while CBT impacts subjective (conditional) well-being. According to Prochaska and Di Clemente (1982), it appears that the personal newfound resources in the PSP group contribute to fostering the client's “feeling of autonomy”. At the same time, group interactivity encourages patients to open themselves up to others. In practice, the positive serious play offers a new therapeutic strategy to help patients solve problems (e.g., symbolism, playfulness; Behr, 2009). Recommendations to adapt this new practice tool to different therapeutic settings as well as the limitations of the study (e.g., sample size of the study, subjective assessment of the problem severity) are discussed.