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A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
(2023-01)
Background:
Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ...
Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: Current status, lingering questions and future directions.
(2023-06)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for psychosis (ACTp) is a contextual behavioural intervention that promotes psychological flexibility by fostering active acceptance, cognitive defusion, values construction and committed ...
A safe place to learn: a peer research qualitative investigation of automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange)
(2023-01)
Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based
psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ...
Explainable artificial intelligence for mental health through transparency and interpretability for understandability
(2023-01)
The literature on artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) in mental health and psychiatry lacks consensus on what
“explainability” means. In the more general XAI (eXplainable AI) literature, there has been ...
Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) in an adult with a learning disability: A case study
(2023-04)
Background: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are attacks that often
look like epileptic seizures (ES). Unlike ES, PNES are not triggered by underlying
neurological factors. PNES are relatively rare in the general ...
Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying
(2023-07)
Understanding how bullying victimisation influences cognitive and emotional processes may help to direct early intervention to prevent the development of psychopathology. In a convenience sample of 67 female adolescents, ...
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
(2023-07)
We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ...
Automated virtual reality cognitive therapy versus virtual reality mental relaxation therapy for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (THRIVE): a parallel-group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial in England with mediation analyses
(2023-09)
Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem that often do not respond sufficiently to standard pharmacological or psychological treatments. We developed a new brief automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive treatment ...
Complex relational needs impede progress in NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT): implications for public mental health
(2023-10)
Although influential in “Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies” (IAPT), the IAPT initiative is predicated on at least two assumptions (namely, homogeneity of clinical pathology and level of severity) that have been ...