Applications of virtual reality in clinical psychology: illustrations with the treatment of anxiety disorders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The high cost of VR equipment and environments is a significant deterrent to the widespread dissemination of this technology from scientific research labs to the offices of clinical psychologists. An alternative is to use modified 3D games to create new and clinically useful immersive environments on head mounted displays. The aim of this paper is to summarize the first 18 months of work at the Cyberpsychology Lab. of the University of Quebec in Outaouais on the applications of virtual reality (VR) in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Three studies are summarized: a comparison between phobics and non-phobics immersed in VR environments, a clinical trial on the effectiveness of 3D games to treat phobias in adults and a clinical trial with children. Presence ratings are very high, as well as the graphic qualities and the flexibility of the programs. Results showed a dramatic improvement on general questionnaires and on measures of overt approach/avoidance of phobic stimuli.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".