ReviewNPJ schizophrenia2019
Comprehensive review on virtual reality for the treatment of violence: implications for youth with schizophrenia.
Review in NPJ schizophrenia, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evidence on Virtual Reality-Based Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders: Meta-Review of Meta-Analyses.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- Ethical Considerations for Researchers' Well-Being in the Development Process of Virtual Reality Scenarios for Child Emotional Maltreatment.Science and engineering ethics · 2026Article
- Virtual Reality Training to Reduce Workplace Violence in Healthcare.Issues in mental health nursing · 2025Article
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- Moral Thinking and Empathy in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: A Narrative Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Improving Our Understanding of Impaired Social Problem-Solving in Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: Implications for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Update on Cyber Health Psychology: Virtual Reality and Mobile Health Tools in Psychotherapy, Clinical Rehabilitation, and Addiction Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Assessing reactive violence using Immersive Virtual Reality.PloS one · 2022Article
- Increasing Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents: What Can We Learn from Neuroimaging Studies?Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Review
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Youth violence is a complex and multifactorial issue that has severe health and social consequences. While treatment options exist to treat/reduce violence in at-risk populations such as schizophrenia, there remains limitations in the efficacy of current interventions. Virtual reality (VR) appears to be a unique possibility to expose offenders and to train coping skills in virtual situations that are capable of eliciting aggression-relevant behavior without threatening others. The focus of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of studies using VR to manage violence across several at-risk populations, with a particular emphasis on youth with schizophrenia. Despite the encouraging success of VR applications for the treatment of different mental health problems, no studies have explored the usability of VR to specifically treat violence in patients with schizophrenia. A limited number of studies have focused on violence risk factors in other mental health problems (i.e., emotion regulation in individual suffering from post-traumatic disorders) that may be targeted in treatments to reduce the risk of violence. The preliminary studies using VR as a therapeutic element have shown reductions in anger, improvements in conflict-resolution skills as well as in empathy levels, and decreases in aggression. Possible applications of these interventions in youth with schizophrenia will be discussed.
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