Okay, let me see, how to phrase this question…
I am a MSW (masters’ of social work) student in my last semester. My internship is at a community mental health center. Basically, most of what I do is to lead groups in the partial hospitalization program,which sort of provides a bridge between hospitalization and living in the communities for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses. I get to design all of the content of the groups. Yeah, I’m kind of amazed that they let an intern do this, too, but that’s how it works in community mental health because of the kind of budgets that exist!
It can be a real challenge to come up with content that both satisfies Medicare guidelines and keeps clients engaged. Therapeutic board games would be wonderful; however, there is absolutely no budget for anything like that. They do exist but my commitment to this internship just cannot extend to spending all that money. But I already spend a LOT of time outside of my internship hours designing class content (which I do not have to do!) so, well, as long as I’m doing that, it dawned on me that I could take an existing board game and adapt it as a therapeutic game. It really wouldn’t be hard. (We already do that with Bingo.) However, I don’t have any board games, nor do I know anyone who does (except Scrabble, and I don’t think that would work too well.) Nor am I going to go out and spend money on regular board games!
So my question is, is there some kind of online source that has… for want of a better term… “board game templates”? Rules, maybe printout boards and game pieces? It just seems that something like this has got to be out there. All advice appreciated! 