Cognitive behavioral therapy for public-speaking anxiety using virtual reality for exposure

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of public speaking training with cognitive behavioral therapy towards public speaking anxiety. Another purpose was to examine the difference of this training effectiveness towards both genders, male and female. The training method is appropriate for applying cognitive behavioral approaches because this method aims to change cognition and to train certain behaviors for an individual to the adaptive and better behavior. The purposive sampling is used in this experimental research to obtain 20 samples including 10 males and 10 females sit in the third grade of a senior high class of TrubusIman Islamic Boarding School and have public speaking anxiety in the medium and high level. The method used quantitative approach for analyzing data. It can be concluded that the training had been effectively minimizing public speaking anxiety but this research could not able show the difference of the training effectiveness among both genders.

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Cloud Based Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Service for Public Speaking Anxiety

Information ◽

10.3390/info10020062 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 62 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Justas Šalkevičius ◽

Audronė Miškinytė ◽

Lukas Navickas

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Public Speaking ◽

Exposure Therapy ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Public Speaking Anxiety ◽

Speaking Anxiety ◽

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy ◽

Skin Response ◽

Virtual Reality Exposure ◽

Therapy Service

Public speaking anxiety is commonly treated using cognitive behavioral therapy. During the therapy session, the patient is either asked to vividly imagine and describe the feared stimulus or is confronted with it in the real world. Sometimes, however, it can be hard to imagine the object of fear or to create a controllable environment that contains this stimulus. Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) can help solve these problems by placing the patient in a simulated 3D environment. While standalone VRET applications have been investigated for more than 25 years, we are analyzing the viability of a cloud-based VRET system. In this paper, we discuss the architectural and technical choices made in order to create a mobile and lightweight solution that can be easily adapted by any psychology clinic. Moreover, we are analyzing data gathered from 30 participants who have undergone a VRET session for public speaking anxiety. Finally, the collected psychophysiological signals including galvanic skin response (GSR) and skin temperature are processed and investigated in order to evaluate our cloud-based VRET system.

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Behavioral Therapy and Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety

Temas em Psicologia ◽

10.9788/tp2019.2-14 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 491-507

Author(s):

Marcela Roberta J. Zacarin ◽

Elizeu Borloti ◽

Verônica B. Haydu

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Public Speaking ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Public Speaking Anxiety ◽

Speaking Anxiety ◽

Virtual Reality Exposure

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Appropriate Number of Treatment Sessions in Virtual Reality-Based Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm10050915 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 915

Author(s):

Hyu Seok Jeong ◽

Jee Hyun Lee ◽

Hesun Erin Kim ◽

Jae-Jin Kim

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Social Anxiety Disorder ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Early Termination ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Significant Group ◽

Extension Group

Virtual reality (VR) was introduced to maximize the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) by efficiently performing exposure therapy. The purpose of this study was to find out whether VR-based individual CBT with relatively few treatment sessions is effective in improving social anxiety disorder (SAD). This therapy was applied to 115 patients with SAD who were retrospectively classified into 43 patients who completed the nine or 10 sessions normally (normal termination group), 52 patients who finished the sessions early (early termination group), and 20 patients who had extended the sessions (session extension group). The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) scores tended to decrease in all groups as the session progressed, and the slope of decrease was the steepest in the early termination group and the least steep in the session extension group. Severity of social anxiety in the last session and symptom reduction rate showed no significant group difference. Our findings suggest that short-term VR-based individual CBT of nine to 10 sessions may be effective. When the therapeutic effect is insufficient during this period, the additional benefit may be minimal if the session is simply extended. The improvement in the early termination group suggests that even shorter sessions of five or six can also be effective.

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One-year randomized trial comparing virtual reality-assisted therapy to cognitive–behavioral therapy for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia

npj Schizophrenia ◽

10.1038/s41537-021-00139-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Laura Dellazizzo ◽

Stéphane Potvin ◽

Kingsada Phraxayavong ◽

Alexandre Dumais

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Comparative Trial ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Treatment Resistant ◽

Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

AbstractThe gold-standard cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for psychosis offers at best modest effects. With advances in technology, virtual reality (VR) therapies for auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), such as AVATAR therapy (AT) and VR-assisted therapy (VRT), are amid a new wave of relational approaches that may heighten effects. Prior trials have shown greater effects of these therapies on AVH up to a 24-week follow-up. However, no trial has compared them to a recommended active treatment with a 1-year follow-up. We performed a pilot randomized comparative trial evaluating the short- and long-term efficacy of VRT over CBT for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Patients were randomized to VRT (n = 37) or CBT (n = 37). Clinical assessments were administered before and after each intervention and at follow-up periods up to 12 months. Between and within-group changes in psychiatric symptoms were assessed using linear mixed-effects models. Short-term findings showed that both interventions produced significant improvements in AVH severity and depressive symptoms. Although results did not show a statistically significant superiority of VRT over CBT for AVH, VRT did achieve larger effects particularly on overall AVH (d = 1.080 for VRT and d = 0.555 for CBT). Furthermore, results suggested a superiority of VRT over CBT on affective symptoms. VRT also showed significant results on persecutory beliefs and quality of life. Effects were maintained up to the 1-year follow-up. VRT highlights the future of patient-tailored approaches that may show benefits over generic CBT for voices. A fully powered single-blind randomized controlled trial comparing VRT to CBT is underway.

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