Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?
Automated
Embodiment
Intervention
Perspective change
Psychiatry
Treatment
Virtual reality
Journal
Current opinion in psychology
ISSN: 2352-2518
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101649136
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2021
10 2021
Historique:
received:
26
10
2020
revised:
11
01
2021
accepted:
05
02
2021
pubmed:
15
3
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
14
3
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Immersive virtual reality (VR) has been identified as a potentially revolutionary tool for psychological interventions. This study reviews current advances in immersive VR-based therapies for mental disorders. VR has the potential to make psychiatric treatments better and more cost-effective and to make them available to a larger group of patients. However, this may require a new generation of VR therapeutic techniques that use the full potential of VR, such as embodiment, and self-led interventions. VR-based interventions are promising, but further well-designed studies are needed that use novel techniques and investigate efficacy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of VR interventions compared with current treatments. This will be crucial for implementation and dissemination of VR in regular clinical practice.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33714892
pii: S2352-250X(21)00014-2
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.02.004
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
40-45Informations de copyright
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