Overcome Social Anxiety through Immersion in Virtual Reality

开发数字治疗性扩展现实(XR)解决方案来提供精神卫生保健服务是一项创新的创举，将作为英国正式精神卫生保健生态系统的一部分实施。我们的目标是探索如何通过沉浸在虚拟现实中来克服社交焦虑，这将在数字治疗内容中有用，并为成年人提供积极的心理健康结果。为此，我们将利用我们现有的获奖软技能课程套件，将在线学习与在线实践和虚拟现实相结合，并推出三种主要情景：\*情景1：**1：1与新人会面模拟\*情景2：**管理神经和肢体语言模拟\*情景3：**沟通和绩效管理模拟作为深入分析的一部分，我们将联系CBT治疗师和支持小组(例如[焦虑英国][0])关于测试过去有社交焦虑问题的客户和志愿者的VR场景，他们愿意帮助年轻人(13岁及以上)和老年人克服对可能被负面评价、与陌生人互动或交谈的情况的恐惧，注意到他们看起来很焦虑，担心尴尬或羞辱自己，看看这是否有助于管理或提高社交焦虑水平。项目参与者将在他们所在的位置戴上VR耳机，并在VR中参与各种模拟，他们将沉浸在真实的虚拟环境中，如网络活动、熟悉和陌生的面孔。在分享的经验中，我们将在早期试验后收集患者和治疗师的反馈，并与社交焦虑/社区心理治疗顾问合作，了解如何使VR应用程序在应对社交焦虑方面更加有效，并修改场景以了解年轻人和老年人所需的产品开发方面的任何差异，并计划如何大规模推出解决方案，从而为英国心理健康部门提供广泛的好处。[0]：https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/

Developing digital therapeutic Extended Reality (XR) solutions to provide mental healthcare services is an innovative initiation that will be implemented as a part of the UK's formal mental healthcare ecosystem.There is a need to undertake a research and development feasibility study in the application of extended reality (XR) to provide mental healthcare services that have the potential to be adopted at scale to form part of the UK's formal mental healthcare ecosystem.Our objective is to explore how to overcome social anxiety through Immersion in Virtual Reality which will be useful in digital therapeutic content and provide positive mental health outcomes for adults. In order to do so we shall utilize our existing suite of award-winning soft skills courses, which combine e-learning with practice online and in Virtual Reality, and launch 3 major scenarios:\* **Scenario 1:** 1:1 meeting simulation with someone new\* **Scenario 2:** Managing the nerves and body language simulation\* **Scenario 3:** Communication and performance management simulationAs a part of the deep analysis, we shall contact CBT therapists and support groups (e.g. [Anxiety UK][0]) about testing VR scenarios with their clients and volunteers having the social anxiety problem in the past and are willing to help both young adults (aged 13 and above) and older adults to overcome the fear of situations in which they may be judged negatively, interacted or talked with strangers, noticed that they look anxious, worry about embarrassing or humiliating themselves to see if it can help manage or improve levels of social anxiety.The program participants will put on a VR headset from their location, and participate in various simulations in VR where they would be immersed in realistic virtual environments such as a networking event, familiar and unfamiliar faces, connect with deliberate body language, move, gesture, and stand with poise and confidence, use body language to convey calm and authority in difficult situations, etc.Per shared experience, we shall gather feedback from patients and therapists after early trial sessions and work with a social anxiety / CBT consultant, to understand how the VR app can be made more effective at dealing with social anxiety and modify scenarios to understand any differences in product development needed for young adults and older adults and plan on how the solution can be rolled out at scale, to provide a broad benefit to the UK mental health sector.[0]: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/