STRIVE: Stress resilience in virtual environments: A pre-deployment VR system for training emotional coping skills and assessing chronic and acute stress responses

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 173, Issue , 2012, Pages 379-385

  Rizzo, Albert ^a   Buckwalter, J Galen ^a   John, Bruce ^a   Newman, Brad ^a   Parsons, Thomas ^a   Kenny, Patrick ^a   Williams, Josh ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Allostatic load; Cognitive coping; PTSD; Stress resilience; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITIVE COPING; COMBAT ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; INITIAL DEPLOYMENTS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WAR;

EID: 84860606538     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-022-2-379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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