Ready to play and re-behave through Regoal!

Five percent of young people in the UK have conduct disorder and 45% of community child health referrals are due to behaviour problems. Young people living in deprived neighbourhoods and low-income households are three times more likely to present with behavioural problems. Many families currently receive little or no help until the young person’s behaviour has escalated to involvement in crime. However, digital programmes have been found to moderate behavioural symptoms and are user-friendly giving easy and immediate access and support to parents.

This talk will present a study that aims to develop a game-based programme (Regoal intervention) for adolescents 11 to 16 years at risk of behavioural problems. The study will pilot and test out the feasibility of Regoal to reduce behavioural problems.

Marcus will be co-presenting with Ifigeneia and Maria, and he is one of the researchers in this project.

Birsu is a Developmental Psychology lecturer at Kingston University. Her research focuses on children's creativity, their language abilities, and how they understand other people's perspectives -she is fascinated by all the impressive abilities young children have!