Title
A virtual environment for the treatment of chronic combat-related post- traumatic stress disorder
Date Issued
01 January 1999
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Hodges L.F.
Rothbaum B.O.
Ready D.
Shahar F.
Graap K.
Pair J.
Hebert P.
Gotz D.
Wills B.
Baltzell D.
Atlanta VA Medical Center
Publisher(s)
Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Abstract
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most disabling psychopathological conditions affecting the veteran population. An estimated 830,000 U.S. veterans currently have symptoms of chronic combat-related PTSD. No therapeutic approach has proven to be consistently effective in the management of combat-related PTSD. Behavior therapies with an exposure element have proven more effective than most other types of treatment, but a significant number of patients do not seem to benefit from them, possibly because of difficulties imagining, visualizing, or describing their traumatic experiences. In this article, we describe Virtual Vietnam, a set of two virtual environments we have developed for the treatment of combat-related PTSD, and its use as one component of a comprehensive treatment program.
Start page
7
End page
14
Volume
2
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0032954348
Source
Cyberpsychology and Behavior
ISSN of the container
10949313
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