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Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian
Edition 10ISBN: 978-1133939535Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian
Edition 10ISBN: 978-1133939535 Exercise 29
Virtual Reality Can Be More than Fun Games
Most people experience a traumatic event at some point in their life, but for some, the trauma has lasting effects that interfere with their daily functioning. People who are plagued by nightmares, flashbacks, and constant stress as a result of a traumatic experience, such as abuse, rape, burglary, or watching a person die, are often in desperate need of treatment. For many years, therapists have been working with such clients by helping them confront their fears in a systematic, step-by-step approach.
As you may expect, many clients who have intense fears are reluctant to undergo therapy that requires them to confront the very fear they so badly want to avoid. A relatively new treatment option for these clients is virtualreality therapy, where they can vividly experience the feared object or situation in a safe and controlled manner. That's right, virtual reality is no longer only about experiencing fun adventures or fantasies. It's a powerful treatment technique. For instance, virtual-reality therapy can help a socially anxious client speak to intimidating crowds of people, or help a client with a phobia of spiders to approach and hold a hideouslooking spider, or even help a client with an intense fear of heights stand on a 30-story building and look straight down.
The virtual worlds are so realistic that when someone with social anxiety is asked a question by a virtual stranger, the resulting tension mimics that which takes place in real-life encounters. And, the reaction is the same when someone with a substance addiction is offered a virtual beer or a virtual line of cocaine.
One of the major advantages of virtual-reality therapy is that it can be used when a client's fear is not something a therapist can easily expose him or her to. For this reason, virtualreality therapy is being used to treat Iraq war veterans diagnosed with PTSD as a result of traumatic combat experiences. Therapists use a computer program to create a virtual environment that consists of the key elements of the reported traumatic experience. The handheld joystick is used to navigate through the three-dimensional scene, and special goggles help make the scene more real. The reenactment takes place on a vibrating platform so the veteran can feel the humming of the tank's motor or the rumbling of explosives being set off. Sounds and smells (such as voices, gunshots, and odors) can be incorporated to add to the realness of the situation. This process is gradual, beginning with only a few elements of the traumatic experience and adding more elements until the scenes become gruesomely realistic, with images of people getting blown up and terrifying sounds of screaming. The goal is that eventually the veteran can go through an intense re-creation without being overcome with fear.
Although the current technology is not nearly as advanced as the world portrayed in The Matrix films, based on clients' intense reactions, the virtual scenes are sophisticated enough.
Question
What type of DSM-IV-TR disorder is fear of spiders and fear of heights?
Most people experience a traumatic event at some point in their life, but for some, the trauma has lasting effects that interfere with their daily functioning. People who are plagued by nightmares, flashbacks, and constant stress as a result of a traumatic experience, such as abuse, rape, burglary, or watching a person die, are often in desperate need of treatment. For many years, therapists have been working with such clients by helping them confront their fears in a systematic, step-by-step approach.
As you may expect, many clients who have intense fears are reluctant to undergo therapy that requires them to confront the very fear they so badly want to avoid. A relatively new treatment option for these clients is virtualreality therapy, where they can vividly experience the feared object or situation in a safe and controlled manner. That's right, virtual reality is no longer only about experiencing fun adventures or fantasies. It's a powerful treatment technique. For instance, virtual-reality therapy can help a socially anxious client speak to intimidating crowds of people, or help a client with a phobia of spiders to approach and hold a hideouslooking spider, or even help a client with an intense fear of heights stand on a 30-story building and look straight down.
The virtual worlds are so realistic that when someone with social anxiety is asked a question by a virtual stranger, the resulting tension mimics that which takes place in real-life encounters. And, the reaction is the same when someone with a substance addiction is offered a virtual beer or a virtual line of cocaine.
One of the major advantages of virtual-reality therapy is that it can be used when a client's fear is not something a therapist can easily expose him or her to. For this reason, virtualreality therapy is being used to treat Iraq war veterans diagnosed with PTSD as a result of traumatic combat experiences. Therapists use a computer program to create a virtual environment that consists of the key elements of the reported traumatic experience. The handheld joystick is used to navigate through the three-dimensional scene, and special goggles help make the scene more real. The reenactment takes place on a vibrating platform so the veteran can feel the humming of the tank's motor or the rumbling of explosives being set off. Sounds and smells (such as voices, gunshots, and odors) can be incorporated to add to the realness of the situation. This process is gradual, beginning with only a few elements of the traumatic experience and adding more elements until the scenes become gruesomely realistic, with images of people getting blown up and terrifying sounds of screaming. The goal is that eventually the veteran can go through an intense re-creation without being overcome with fear.
Although the current technology is not nearly as advanced as the world portrayed in The Matrix films, based on clients' intense reactions, the virtual scenes are sophisticated enough.
Question
What type of DSM-IV-TR disorder is fear of spiders and fear of heights?
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