Using virtual reality in the therapy sessions benefits mental health professionals by offering them the opportunity to reproduce real-life scenarios and even adapt and control these environments to meet a client’s individual needs.
The use of VR in psychology has shown to be highly beneficial to therapists, patients, and mental health providers.
More than three decades of controlled studies have proven the benefits of VR technology in mental health counseling.
Manah's Health VR platform allows healthcare providers to control the environment to meet the specific needs of each individual patient.
Scientific research has shown higher attrition for patients using traditional exposure techniques. A study of García-Palacios et al. (2007) showed that 27% of patients suffering from a specific phobia rejected using in vivo exposure therapy, considering it overly intense. Comparatively, only 3% of patients in the study refused VR exposure therapy. Manah Health VR platform helps to create a more conducive environment and carry out mental health therapy sessions.
In a study of Maples-Keller et al. (2017) the literature analyzed by the authors has shown low dropout rates among patients and suggest VR’s high acceptability.
There's no need for the patient and therapist to leave the consultation as with traditional in vivo exposure therapies.
Finding the right environment and the right time of the day to conduct in vivo exposure can incur significant logistic and financial costs to therapists. Manah's Health VR software eliminates this problem by giving therapists complete freedom to control the environment according to their own professional judgment of their patient’s characteristics and needs.
Using virtual reality technology in the therapy sessions benefits mental health professionals as it allows them to repeat scenes as many times as necessary to help the patient. Manah's Health VR platform also removes any issues of interference or uncontrollable variables that may happen in a real-world setting, since the environment is completely controlled.
