Virtual Trauma Interventions for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorders: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Some post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients do not benefit from imaginal exposure therapy. One possible approach to reach such patients are virtual trauma interventions. Herein, a qualitative scoping review was conducted. Different types of virtual trauma exposure interventions were identified. For each type of virtual trauma exposure interventions it was examined in detail: (1) which in sensu trauma exposure approach serves as therapeutic framework, how it was transferred into virtual reality, and if it was manualized; (2) which hardware and software were used; (3) whether the influence of spatial and social presence on the efficacy of virtual trauma interventions have been measured, and (4) whether the efficacy of virtual trauma interventions for PTSD patients having imagi

SUBMITTER: Knaust T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7691274 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature