Barcelona rooftop
In this scenario we can see the city of Barcelona from the highest point of a building. Moreover, the healthcare professional can control exposure to anxiogenic interoceptive sensations.
- Heart Volume
- Heart Rate
- Breath Volume
- Breath Rate
On the other hand, thereʼs the possibility of practicing a relaxation exercise in order to reduce the patientʼs anxiety and to teach him how to use these techniques and how to apply them in real life.
HOW TO APPLY COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TECHNIQUES WITH AMELIA VIRTUAL CARE?
The virtual reality environments and especially the last two can be used for verbal and behavioral questioning of the negative thoughts of the patient.
The fact of being in the situation will facilitate the evocation of recurrent thoughts that it produces. Thus, the healthcare professional will be able to question them and the patient will internalize the procedure, which he will be able to apply more easily when in his real life he finds himself facing the feared situation.
In the same way, the patient will be able to test the most feared consequences of the situation, previously discussed with the healthcare professional, and verify that they are not being complied with.
For example, the healthcare professional has an acrophobic patient who believes that if his or her eyesight is clouded, he or she will probably faint, fall and eventually die. In this case, patient and healthcare professional can prove repeatedly in the virtual environment (New York or Barcelona) that in spite of experiencing these sensations, they are controllable, and their predictions are erroneous and are not fulfilled.