Virtual Reality and the Training of Military Personnel to Cope with Acute...
AbstractVirtual reality is used in psychotherapeutic applications, but also as a training tool to practice stress management techniques and, hopefully, in the long term reduce the likelihood of...
View ArticleEvaluation of a Primary Prevention Program for Anxiety Disorders Using Story...
AbstractThis article reports the results of a study evaluating a book-supported primary prevention program “Dominique’s Handy Tricks” for anxiety disorders in children aged 9–12 years. This...
View ArticleArachnophobia and Fear of Other Insects: Efficacy and Lessons Learned from...
AbstractThe pathological fear of animals, spiders, bugs, mice, cats, or snakes, among others, can be severe enough to be considered a specific phobia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...
View ArticleSickness in Virtual Reality
AbstractThis book demonstrates the potential of VR in a number of contexts, and in particular, the treatment of anxiety disorders. However, since the 1990s, it has been observed that there may be some...
View ArticleVirtual Reality for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
AbstractExposure to an incident in which an individual encounters severe physical harm or a life-threatening occurrence can leave a person with repercussions of psychological distress. Such an event...
View ArticlePanic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Driving Phobia: Lessons Learned From...
AbstractThe main feature of panic disorder (PD) is recurrent panic attacks. This is closely followed by concern over having additional panic attacks, worry about adverse physical or psychological...
View ArticleFear of Heights (Acrophobia): Efficacy and Lessons Learned from...
AbstractAcrophobia, or the fear of heights, is a phobic anxiety disorder that falls under the category of specific (isolated) phobia in the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) and is...
View ArticleConclusions: The Present and the Future of Virtual Reality in the Treatment...
AbstractIn this book, we described anxiety as a human emotion that requires a complex cognitive system to be experienced. When anxiety is directed to a specific event, increases in intensity and its...
View ArticleFear of Flying (Aviophobia): Efficacy and Methodological Lessons Learned from...
AbstractThe pathological fear of flying, also called aviophobia, falls under the subtype of specific situational phobias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) or...
View ArticleGeneralized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Efficacy and...
AbstractGeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD) is the last anxiety disorder to have been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel (DSM). It made its appearance in the DSM-III, published in 1980....
View ArticlePresence
AbstractVirtual reality (VR) literature includes many descriptions of users reacting to a virtual environment in instinctual ways that suggest they believe, at least for a short time, that they were...
View ArticleSocial Anxiety Disorder: Efficacy and Virtual Humans
AbstractAccording to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10, the excessive,...
View ArticleClaustrophobia: Efficacy and Treatment Protocols
AbstractClaustrophobia is the fear and avoidance of enclosed spaces. It is described as a specific phobia and falls under the general “situational subtype” in the DSM-IV and corresponds to the...
View ArticleA Case Example of a Virtual Reality Clinic
AbstractIn the 1990s, there were no journals dedicated to virtual reality (VR) and psychology, no clinics, no conferences, no training programs, and very few technologies. And yet a handful of...
View ArticleIntroduction
AbstractVirtual reality (VR) may be defined as a set of computer technologies, which, when combined, provide an interface to an interactive, computer-generated world. In particular, VR provides an...
View ArticleUsing immersive virtual reality and anatomically correct computer-generated...
AbstractPenile plethysmography (PPG) is the gold standard for the assessment of sexual interests, especially among sex offenders of children. Nonetheless, this method faces some ethical limitations...
View ArticleLearning disabilities and visual-motor skills; comparing assessment from a...
Abstract Previous investigations conducted on post-secondary adult students with learning disabilities (LD) suggest that deficits in visual-motor skills contribute to difficulties in written expression...
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