This environment depicts the view from a fifth floor balcony. Because of the camera shots, the patient will be forced to look down and notice the distance between the balcony and the ground.
Length: 1’17’’
Difficulty: high
There are two Amelia Virtual Care environments that allow for the patient to be exposed to a situation in which he or she is inside a crystal elevator. Although both situations are about being inside a glass elevator, in one of them it is outdoors whereas the other one is indoors.
There are two Amelia Virtual Care environments that allow for the patient to be exposed to a situation in which he or she is inside a crystal elevator. Although both situations are about being inside a glass elevator, in one of them it is outdoors whereas the other one is indoors.
The patient will stroll along an ancient castle and will have to look at the moat below, noticing the height.
Length: 1’28’’
Difficulty: medium
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.
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.
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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.
Al inicio del entorno el paciente se encuentra dentro de la estación de metro y se dirige hacia el andén. Cuando llega el tren se sube en un vagón que va bastante lleno.
Permanecerá en él unos minutos hasta bajar en otra estación, donde empezará a andar para salir finalmente a la calle.
Duración: 5’18’’
Dificultad: media
At the beginning of the environment, the patients find themselves inside a subway station and head towards the platform. When the train arrives, they board a fairly crowded subway car.
They will ride for a few minutes until they get off at another station, where they will then walk until they reach the exit to the street.
Length: 5’18’’
Difficulty: medium
The patient will take a walk along a very touristic port, where there are some other people.
Length: 3’12’’
Difficulty: medium
El paciente se encontrará dando un paseo por el puerto, una zona muy turística en la que hay bastante gente.
Duración: 3’12’’
Dificultad: media
This environment puts the patient in a situation where they have to walk through a busy street. There are quite a few people around them walking in both directions (which can unleash feelings of distress , flushing, etc).
Length: 4’ 42’’
Difficulty: high