“Our job is to really find out where the intersection of this kind of tool and the field sticks,” said Mimi McFaul, Deputy Director of the National Mental Health Innovation Center. “VR basically puts you in a simulated environment that can expose you to a number of different practice environments."
Most of the clinical studies with virtual reality have been done with adults, but there are requests for younger children to get involved. Clinicians hope to use the 3D setting as a way to help patients face their fears and get real time reactions.
While VR cannot completely replace the work of a trained clinician, it’s a tool to help solve problems in mental health or prevent them from developing further.
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