Digital Traditional Games Application as Play Therapy for Children with Attachment Disorder Endah Silawati, Winti Ananthia, Mirawati, Margaretha Sri Yuliariatiningsih, Solihin Ichas Hamid, Dian Anggraini
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
This article describes the design of digital traditional games application as media of play therapy for children with attachment disorder. This article is a part of a bigger on-going research project investigating the development of traditional game-based play therapy to overcome attachment disorder of children who has single parent in Bandung district, West Java, Indonesia. The increasing number of divorces in Bandung district that related to big number of juvenile delinquency rate become the background of this study. Moreover, some juvenile delinquency cases are caused by attachment disorder that happen in child period. Furthermore, in designing the application, 5 children and 5 single parents become the participants who give preliminary information and feedback. Software Development Life Cycle Method is used to develop the application. Based on the analysis, some traditional games are possible to be designed as digital games application. The games are congklak and anjang anjangan. In addition, it is revealed that the effectiveness of the application rises if the children play the games with their parents.
Keywords: Digital games, traditional games, play therapy, attachment disorder children
