Virtual Reality in the Assessment and Treatment of Weight-Related Disorders

Brenda Kay Wiederhold*, Giuseppe Riva, José Gutiérrez Maldonado

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

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Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) has, for the past two decades, proven to be a useful adjunctive tool for both assessment and treatment of patients with eating disorders and obesity. VR allows an individual to enter scenarios that simulate real-life situations and to encounter food cues known to trigger his/her disordered eating behavior. As well, VR enables three-dimensional figures of the patient's body to be presented, helping him/her to reach an awareness of body image distortion and then providing the opportunity to confront and correct distortions, resulting in a more realistic body image and a decrease in body image dissatisfaction. In this paper, we describe seminal studies in this research area.
Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)67-73
Numero di pagine7
RivistaCyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Volume19
Numero di pubblicazione2
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Psicologia Sociale
  • Comunicazione
  • Psicologia Applicata
  • Interazione Uomo-Macchina
  • Informatica Applicata

Keywords

  • eating disorders
  • obesity
  • virtual reality

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