Virtual Reality Applications to Address the Wounds of War
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Healio.com/Psychiatry | 123 Numerous reports indicate that the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in returning Operation Enduring Freedom/ Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) military personnel is creating a significant behavioral health care challenge. These findings have served to motivate research on how to better develop and disseminate evidence-based treatments for PTSD. This article details how virtual reality applications are being designed and implemented across various points in the military deployment cycle to prevent, identify, and treat combat-related PTSD in OEF/ OIF service members and veterans. The summarized projects in these areas have been developed at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), a US Army University Affiliated Research Center, and will detail efforts to use virtual reality to deliver exposure therapy and provide stress resilience training prior to deployVirtual Reality Applications to Address the Wounds of War
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تاریخ انتشار 2013