ArticleFrontiers in digital health2022
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Treating Social Anxiety: A Scoping Review of Treatment Designs and Adaptation to Stuttering.
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- From facing fears to experimental frontiers: immersive cinematic virtual reality environments as a catalyst for innovation in behavioral neuroscience.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Stress Situations and Speech Fluency: A Pilot Study of Oral Presentations in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Improvement of Game Users' Depressive Symptoms via Behavioral Activation in a Massive Multiplayer Online Game: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- Integrating Virtual Reality, Neurofeedback, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (Hybrid): Protocol of a Pilot, Unblinded, Single-Arm Interventional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of Identifying Signs of Social Anxiety, in University Students Aged 18-25, While Watching 360° Immersive Films.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of self-guided virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Virtual Reality exposure therapy in the treatment of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety disorder.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- Using iVR to deliver optimal psychotherapy experience-current perspectives on VRET for acrophobia.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Virtual reality exposure therapy for reducing social anxiety in stuttering: A randomized controlled pilot trial.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- Mixed Reality for a collective and adaptive mental health metaverse.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- What's Love Got to Do With It? Reflections on the Role of Stuttering in Enabling and Enhancing Relationships.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
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Abstract
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) has been shown to be an effective technique for reducing social anxiety. People who stutter are at greater risk of developing heightened social anxiety. Cognitive behavior therapy protocols have shown promise in reducing social anxiety in people who stutter, but no studies have investigated VRET targeting social anxiety associated with stuttering. The aim of the current review is to provide an overview of VRET techniques used to treat social anxiety and insights into how these techniques might be adopted in the case of comorbid stuttering and social anxiety. Twelve studies were reviewed to understand key distinctions in VRET protocols used to treat social anxiety. Distinctions include exercises targeting public speaking vs. general social anxiety, computer-generated virtual environments vs. 360° video, and therapist guided vs. automated VRET. Based on the review findings, we propose how certain features could be applied in the case of stuttering. Virtual therapists, inhibitory learning techniques and integration into speech therapy may be suitable ways to tailor VRET. Regardless of these different techniques, VRET should consider the situations and cognitive-behavioral processes that underlie the experience of social anxiety amongst people who stutter.
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