Virtual reality exposure therapy in anxiety disorders: A systematic review of process-and-outcome studies

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 933-944

  Meyerbröker, Katharina ^a   Emmelkamp, Paul M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Efficacy; Exposure; Mechanisms; Virtual reality exposure therapy

Indexed keywords

ACROPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEAR OF FLYING; FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REALITY THERAPY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79952114942     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20734     Document Type: Review

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