A technological tool for treating social anxiety: Virtual reality Sosyal anksiyeteye müdahalede teknolojik bir araç: Sanal gerçeklik


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ÖZER Ö., YÖNTEM M. K.

Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, cilt.10, sa.4, ss.296-301, 2019 (Scopus, TRDizin) identifier identifier

Özet

Virtual reality-based interventions are the technological instruments that have been found to be effective and used in psychological services. They have been in use for more than 20 years. Virtual reality can be used to treat many mental health issues such as anxiety disorders, depressive moods, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. These interventions are based on the exposure method. With the advances in ever-developing technological products and software, more realistic and effective interventions emerge, and programs are tested by many experimental studies. The studies of virtual reality-based interventions toward social anxiety disorder, for which the virtual reality practices are used the most commonly, were examined in this compilation, the current state of virtual reality use in Turkey was explained, and recommendations for future were presented.