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VR THERAPY [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

Like systematic desensitization therapy, VRT can provide stimuli for patients who have difficulty in imagining scenes and/or are too phobic to experience real situations. Unlike in vivo systematic desensitization, VRT can be performed within the privacy of a room, thus avoiding public embarrassment and violation of patient confidentiality.

OBS

virtual reality therapy: data validated by Canadian subject-field experts from École Polytechnique de Montréal, MasterpieceVR and McGill University.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

La thérapie par réalité virtuelle consiste en l'utilisation [de] matériel technologique permettant au patient de s'immerger dans une réalité virtuelle dans le cadre d'une psychothérapie cognitive et comportementale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
  • Psicología clínica
  • Simulación (Sistemas cibernéticos)
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

Con respecto a la satisfacción de los participantes al concluir el tratamiento, no se encontraron diferencias de preferencia entre el programa [autoaplicado] y los tratamientos mediante realidad virtual, lo cual apoya la hipótesis de que los participantes consideraron que los tratamientos con incorporación tecnológica son lógicos y útiles para abordar la problemática emocional, lo que está en concordancia con la línea de varios autores [...] al manifestar que a los participantes les es más fácil dar el primer paso para enfrentar su miedo cuando pueden hacerlo a través de ambientes virtuales.

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Record 2 2024-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
CONT

Phobia treatment is typically done by what is known as "exposure therapy." This treatment involves exposing the patient to the anxiety invoking stimulus, and allowing the anxiety to subside. Virtual reality exposure therapy exposes the patient to a virtual environment that contains the fear-inducing stimulus rather than exposing them to the stimulus in the real world or having the patient imagine the stimulus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
CONT

[...] la thérapie d'exposition par réalité virtuelle (TERV) repose sur le principe de l'exposition programmée avec inhibition de la réponse d'évitement[;] elle s'adresse aux phobies spécifiques comme l'acrophobie et l'aérophobie, [ainsi qu']aux phobies sociales spécifiques notamment à la peur de s'exprimer oralement devant un groupe.

Spanish

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