Computer‐supported cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders

Anderson, Page L.; Jacobs, Carli H.; Rothbaum, Barbara O.

doi:10.1002/jclp.10262

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“…16,22,23,25 A successful virtual experience occurs when the users have a sense of presence, defined as a sensation of being inside the virtual environment. [26][27][28][29][30] According to Bellina,22 recent literature has demonstrated that the more immersive the scenario is, the more intense the subsequent emotional state elicited. Specifically, immersive scenarios can increase the sense of presence, or the illusion of ''being there.''…”

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Virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of driving: analysis of clinical characteristics, physiological response, and sense of presence

Costa

Carvalho

Ribeiro

et al. 2018

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: To investigate the reactions of women with driving phobia to a therapeutic program of scheduled virtual reality exposure treatment (VRET) sessions. Methods: The study intervention consisted of a computer game with car-driving scenarios that included several traffic situations. We investigated the participants' sense of presence, subjective distress, and physiological responses during eight virtual-reality exposures. We also evaluated clinical characteristics, driving cognitions, and quality of life in the participants. Results: Thirteen women were selected. Eight were able to complete the protocol. After VRET, there was a decrease in the frequency of distorted thoughts and state anxiety scores, as well as a slight improvement in quality of life. Subjective discomfort scores, heart rate variation, and sense of presence scores confirmed that there was sense of presence in the virtual reality environment. Conclusion: All patients showed some degree of improvement and demonstrated different levels of anxiety in subsequent in vivo driving experiences. Our findings suggest that VRET could be used to facilitate in vivo exposure, because it can induce presence/immersion and reduce anxiety in patients with specific phobia. Furthermore, VRET is not associated with any type of risk.

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Virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of driving: analysis of clinical characteristics, physiological response, and sense of presence

Costa

Carvalho

Ribeiro

et al. 2018

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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“…However, others have suggested that it is not consumers but clinicians who are opposed to the use of technology more broadly in therapy despite lack of empirical evidence of adverse effects on clientÀtherapist relationships (Anderson et al 2004). Although several challenges associated with delivering sessions by telephone were identified by providers, effective strategies were adopted to manage these; for example, having an initial face-to-face session assisted with the development of rapport.…”

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Evaluation of an Australian primary care telephone cognitive behavioural therapy pilot

Bassilios

Pirkis

King

et al. 2014

Aust. J. Prim. Health

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Abstract.A telephone-based cognitive behavioural therapy pilot project was trialled from July 2008 to June 2010, via an Australian Government-funded primary mental health care program. A web-based minimum dataset was used to examine level of uptake, sociodemographic and clinical profile of consumers, precise nature of services delivered, and consumer outcomes. Key informant interviews with 22 project officers and 10 mental health professionals elicited lessons learnt from the implementation of the pilot. Overall, 548 general practitioners referred 908 consumers, who received 6607 sessions (33% via telephone). The sessions were delivered by 180 mental health professionals. Consumers were mainly females with an average age of 37 years and had a diagnosis of depressive and/or anxiety disorders. A combination of telephone and face-toface sessions of 1 h in duration were conducted, delivering behavioural and cognitive interventions, usually with no cost to consumers. Several implementation issues were identified by project officers and mental health professionals. Although faceto-face treatment is preferred by providers and consumers, the option of the telephone modality is valued, particularly for consumers who would not otherwise access psychological services. Evidence in the form of positive consumer outcomes supports the practice of multimodal service delivery.Additional keywords: access to allied psychological services, better outcomes, primary mental health care, psychological intervention, telephone therapy.

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“…One of the major strengths of this technique is that VR environment provides emerging opportunities to individuals with an active participation in a three-dimensional world. Moreover, participants are able to manipulate their environment via a second position sensor for some environments [29]. In terms of validity as another strength, various research findings suggested that VR environment based performance is predictive of real-world performance.…”

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Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety of Software Engineers Using Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Nazlıgül

Yılmaz

Güleç

et al. 2017

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. Public speaking anxiety is a type of social phobia, which might be commonly seen in novice software engineers. It is usually triggered by a fear of social performance especially when the performer is unfamiliar with the audience. Today, many software engineering activities (e.g. code inspection, peer review, daily meetings, etc.) require social gatherings where individuals need to present their work. However, novice software engineers may not be able to reduce their performance anxiety during their course of education. In this study, we propose a virtual reality approach to construct a practice environment for improving novice software engineers' pubic speaking experiences. Consequently, we examine the effects of virtual reality intervention on the public speaking experience of six novice software engineers from a computer engineering department. We designed a virtual auditorium to simulate the presentation delivery environment and findings suggest that using this infrastructre for training purposes can reduce presenter anxiety levels which is consistent with related published studies. We believe that this virtual auditorium environment can deliver benefits for students and practitioners alike in terms of addressing the anxiety that is often associated with early stage career presenters.

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Computer‐supported cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders

Cited by 106 publications

References 57 publications

Virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of driving: analysis of clinical characteristics, physiological response, and sense of presence

Virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of driving: analysis of clinical characteristics, physiological response, and sense of presence

Evaluation of an Australian primary care telephone cognitive behavioural therapy pilot

Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety of Software Engineers Using Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

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