Attitudes Toward and Familiarity With Virtual Reality Therapy Among Practicing Cognitive Behavior Therapists: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in the Era of Consumer VR Platforms.

cognitive behavior therapy dissemination and implementation eHealth therapist virtual reality

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 27 06 2018
accepted: 18 01 2019
entrez: 26 2 2019
pubmed: 26 2 2019
medline: 26 2 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is an efficacious treatment for fear and anxiety and has the potential to solve both logistic issues for therapists and be used for scalable self-help interventions. However, VRET has yet to see large-scale implementation in clinical settings or as a consumer product, and past research suggests that while therapists may acknowledge the many advantages of VRET, they view the technology as technically inaccessible and expensive. We reasoned that after the 2016 release of several consumer virtual reality (VR) platforms and associated public acquaintance with VR, therapists' concerns about VRET may have evolved. The present study surveyed attitudes toward and familiarity with VR and VRET among practicing cognitive behavior therapists (

Identifiants

pubmed: 30800086
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00176
pmc: PMC6376952
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

176

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Auteurs

Philip Lindner (P)

Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Center for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Alexander Miloff (A)

Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Elin Zetterlund (E)

Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lena Reuterskiöld (L)

Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Gerhard Andersson (G)

Center for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.

Per Carlbring (P)

Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

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