NETWORKED COMPUTER COUNSELLING METHOD AND SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method of providing counselling services to a student child or adolescent with facilitation by a counsellor aiming to enhance a personal or social skill of the student and using a networked computer system specially adapted to enable communication between the counsellor and student relating to the counselling services, the method comprising the steps of:
- ensuring that the student is enrolled as a user of the computer system;
assigning to the student a program of real life tasks relating to the enhancement aim with associated experience points to be awarded on achievement thereof;
recording the real life tasks and a progress of achievement thereof in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system;
awarding and accumulating experience points to the student on the achievement of one or more of the assigned real life tasks;
recording at least the accumulated number of experience points in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system;
awarding one or more real life rewards to the student, each real life reward conferring a real life benefit on the student; and
recording the one or more real life rewards in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system.
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for providing counselling services to a student child or adolescent with facilitation by a counsellor aiming to enhance a personal or social skill of the student and using a networked computer system configured to enable communication between the counsellor and student relating to the counselling services, the method comprising a number of steps involved in assigning tasks, awarding experience points and recording and displaying progress on a networked computer system. The networked computer system is further configured to implement the steps of the method.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of providing counselling services to a student child or adolescent with facilitation by a counsellor aiming to enhance a personal or social skill of the student and using a networked computer system specially adapted to enable communication between the counsellor and student relating to the counselling services, the method comprising the steps of:
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ensuring that the student is enrolled as a user of the computer system; assigning to the student a program of real life tasks relating to the enhancement aim with associated experience points to be awarded on achievement thereof; recording the real life tasks and a progress of achievement thereof in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system; awarding and accumulating experience points to the student on the achievement of one or more of the assigned real life tasks; recording at least the accumulated number of experience points in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system; awarding one or more real life rewards to the student, each real life reward conferring a real life benefit on the student; and recording the one or more real life rewards in the computer system so as to be viewable by the student through the computer system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18)
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15. A computer-based system for providing counselling services to a student child or adolescent with facilitation by a counsellor aiming to enhance a personal or social skill of the student, the computer-based system being a networked computer environment specially adapted to enable communication between the counsellor and student relating to the counselling services, and providing a username membership structure to enable the student to be enrolled as a user of the computer system and to enable the student have access to a notification facility;
- the networked computer environment comprising;
a data recording component specially adapted to record real life tasks assigned to student relating to the enhancement aim, progress of achievement of the real life tasks, an accumulated number of experience points awarded on achievement of one or more of the assigned real life tasks, and one or more real life rewards awarded to the student each real life reward conferring a real life benefit on the student; and a display component specially adapted to display through the notification facility information concerning the real life tasks assigned to the student, the progress of achievement of the real life tasks, the accumulated number of experience points, and the one or more real life rewards awarded to the student. - View Dependent Claims (16, 19, 20)
- the networked computer environment comprising;
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