Virtue of Virtuality
virtual reality (VR) has limitless potential for imaginative applications . For exapie/it could allow a professional and a client to meet over the lnternet in a virtual office. A virtul environment can vividly reproduce a clint s problem/ such as not being able to urinate when within the hearing of other people. Virtual 3-D chat rooms can add a new personal dimension to exiisting lnternetsupport groups. Professionals may conduct biofeedback within virtual environments to promote generalization of the relaxation response. professionals also may use virtul3-D games for social skills training and other therapeutic fgolas . the improvement of existing virtual technology will nprobably continue to be driven by pornography and gaming .
virtulual assessment :
HMOs are increasingly intersted in objective markers of phychological distress and dysfunction, both before treatment and after treatment .virtual reality could contribute to a test battery that assesses a patient in a new and new and more accurate way than current assessment tools. for example the most straight forward virtual reality testing could enable practitioners to to determine the cues that trigger various components of a patient 's phobic response.
A seriees of potentially phobic environment can be presented quickly to client , who rate their anxiety as sensors monitor their physiologic states . when a particular sscreeing sitution elicits a response , the virtual reality software could then branch deeper into situation of the appropriate category until it pinpoints the specific stimuli that are provoking anxiety
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