Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders

• Main Authors: Wiederhold, Brenda K. (Author), Bouchard, Stéphane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

The interactive computer-generated world of virtual reality has been successful in treat­ing phobias and other anxiety-related conditions, in part because of its distinct advan­tages over traditional in vivo exposure. Yet many clinicians still think of VR technology as it was in the 1990s–bulky, cos...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction
• Presence
• Sickness in Virtual Reality
• Part II: Fear of Flying (Aviophobia): Efficacy and methodological lessons from outcome trials
• Arachnophobia and Fear of Other Insects: Efficacy and lessons learned from treatment process
• Fear of Heights (Acrophobia): Efficacy and lessons learned from psychophysiological data
• Claustrophobia: Efficacy and treatment protocals
• Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and Driving Phobia: Lessons learned from efficacy studies
• Social Anxiety Disorder: Efficacy and virtual humans
• Virtual Reality for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Efficacy and the Development of Virtual Environments
• Part III: A Case Example of a Virtual Reality Clinic
• Conclusions: The present and future of Virtual Reality in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders.