Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (Vret) for Reduction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) of Terrorist Assault Survivors

Abstract

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a computationally simulated treatment, based on Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic and such other sensual tools condition to immerse and redirect the patient’s mind capabilities by scripted and controlled scenarios. The therapy is increasingly being used to overcome a variety of social and general anxiety disorders, specific phobias and PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to any unfortunate mishap. In recent past, by the reason of expenditures and technical limitations, VR facility has not been broadly accessible; however recent manufacturing developments gradually increase its availability to common people. The Psychological treatment requires some or more patient’s intention, concentration and will power, so sometime subconscious resistance make it quite exhausting and lethargic process. VRET on the other hand immerse the client into environment rapidly and with no or less efforts. The objective of this research study is to design and develop a user-friendly cultural oriented VRET system that would be helpful to immerse PTSD patient’s all mental faculties into well-defined scenarios of relevant contexts. The promising results for reducing PTSD symptoms are highly expected from this multi-disciplinary project which has validated its correct direction by initial tests.To ensure the novelty of proposed therapy a statistical comparative study is plan to conduct between the virtual reality exposure treatment group and the traditional Clinician Administered PTSD.The VRET may provide numerous advantages ranging from cost effectiveness, controlled and semi supervised environments, autonomy on feedback, learning capability and ease of availability. In current global situation such projects are unavoidable in order to attain psychological wellbeing of common man.