VR therapy project that aims to decrease avoidance and distress in patients suffering from psychosis by a 6-session treatment using a virtual coach

Syracuse University

-	Therapeutic VR-protocol for psychotic disorder: Challenge project
-	Automated VR treatment: The gameChange project
-	Automated VR treatment: THRIVE study

Developing VR treatments for psychosis 

Geraets, Chris N. W. (10/01/2021). "Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?". Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality? (2352-2518), 41 , p. 40.

Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?

 In the Challenge project builds off of AVATAR, wherein patients create a 3D virtual avatar to go with the voice they hear. This voice is then controlled by the therapist through voice conversion technology. The addition of VR will increase presence, which is thought to be important for efficacy and might enhance generalization through practicing within VR environments in which the voices occur in daily life.

Therapeutic VR-protocol for psychotic disorder: Challenge project

The gameChange project

Patients with persistent persecutory delusions will be randomized across four 30-min sessions of automated VR cognitive treatment or VR relaxation

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