The Added Value of Parents Practicing in Virtual Reality to Illustrate the Use of Innovative Methods in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Single-Case Experimental Design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Throughout years of research, the well-known behavioral parent training program, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), has been adapted and enhanced to tailor the treatment to the needs of families in community-based clinical care. This study wished to evaluate an add-on to PCIT that could be engaging for parents. As a way to enlarge practice opportunity and potentially allow parents to achieve positive treatment effects sooner, this study added virtual reality (VR) to PCIT.

Objective

This study aimed to increase positive parenting skills at a faster pace with the use of PCIT-VR, on the basis that practicing positive parenting skills in the VR tool would increase parents' overall practice time, thus leading to more confidence in their skills, which could conseq

SUBMITTER: Scherpbier ICA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12329383 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature