Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare 6. Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation, and Assessment

✍ Scribed by Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C. Jain (auth.), Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 337
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the latest research in Virtual Reality (VR), as it is being applied in psychotherapy, rehabilitation, and the analysis of behaviour for neurological assessment. This book will be of value to anyone already in the field and to those who are interested in the development of VR systems for therapeutic purposes. The contents include:

· The latest literature reviews on VR in psychotherapy, psychological wellbeing, and rehabilitation

· VR and cognitive behavior therapy

· Increasing presence in VR for effective exposure therapy and treatment of anxiety disorders

· VR military training for managing combat stress and preventing post traumatic stress

· VR, mixed reality systems, and games for stroke rehabilitation

· VR systems for improving vision in children with amblyopia

· Therapeutic play in virtual environments

· Healing potential of online virtual worlds such as Second Life

· Neuropsychological assessment using virtual environments

· Detailed accounts on how VR systems are designed, implemented, and best evaluated

· Discussions of limitations, problems, and ethical concerns using VR in mental and physical therapy

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation, and Neurological Assessment....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Virtual Reality Supporting Psychological Health....Pages 13-29
Current Trends and Future Directions for Virtual Reality Enhanced Psychotherapy....Pages 31-45
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: The State of the Art....Pages 47-62
Virtual Reality as a Tool for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Review....Pages 63-108
Virtual Reality and the Training of Military Personnel to Cope with Acute Stressors....Pages 109-128
How Can Presence in Psychotherapy Employing VR Be Increased? Chapter for Inclusion in: Systems in Health Care Using Agents and Virtual Reality....Pages 129-147
The Healing Potential of Online Virtual Worlds....Pages 149-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Virtual Reality and Serious Games in Healthcare....Pages 169-192
Development and Evaluation of a Mixed Reality System for Stroke Rehabilitation....Pages 193-228
Design and Development of a Virtual-Reality Based System for Improving Vision in Children with Amblyopia....Pages 229-252
Doing Play in a Virtual Environment....Pages 253-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Neuropsychological Assessment Using Virtual Environments: Enhanced Assessment Technology for Improved Ecological Validity....Pages 271-289
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Biomedical Engineering; Health Informatics