Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders : A new reality?
(2021) In Current Opinion in Psychology 41. p.40-45- Abstract
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... (More)
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.
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- author
- Geraets, Chris N.W. LU ; van der Stouwe, Elisabeth C.D. ; Pot-Kolder, Roos and Veling, Wim
- publishing date
- 2021-10
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Automated, Embodiment, Intervention, Perspective change, Psychiatry, Treatment, Virtual reality
- in
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- volume
- 41
- pages
- 40 - 45
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85102313809
- pmid:33714892
- ISSN
- 2352-250X
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.02.004
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)
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- 6f5d6c14-c5c6-482e-bf66-3885605ce975
- date added to LUP
- 2024-10-21 10:37:36
- date last changed
- 2025-07-15 09:27:44
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