Does engagement with exposure yield better outcomes? Components of presence as a predictor of treatment response for virtual reality exposure therapy for social phobia

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 763-770

  Price, Matthew ^a   Mehta, Natasha ^b   Tone, Erin B ^b   Anderson, Page L ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Presence; Social anxiety; Virtual reality exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IGROUP PRESENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; MALE; PERSONAL REPORT OF CONFIDENCE AS A SPEAKER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; SUBJECTIVE UNIT OF DISCOMFORT SCALE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79957911956     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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