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Alternative Psychological Treatment for Patients with a Diagnosis of Entomophobia with Virtual Reality Environments

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Virtual reality is a term that emphasizes the establishment of virtual spaces that simulate the context. Thus, the use of this technology is an alternative for the treatment of phobias caused by irrational and unexplained fears, through the practice of some traumatic experience. Virtual reality helps to create places that simulate three-dimensional existence, in which objects or situations can be useful for the psychological treatment of patients with serious mental illnesses, such as phobias, which are considered an irrational fear of a stimulus that can cause dangerous consequences. Sometimes, fear is so aggressive that patients refuse to be treated, even knowing that they can free themselves from their fear. Nowadays, Entomophobia or insectophobia is the most common phobias that often do not justify the size or harmlessness of insects, the application of alternative treatments makes patients able to live with this type of fear or end the association of stimulus-response.

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  1. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador

    Milton-Patricio Navas-Moya, Paulina-Tatiana Mayorga-Soria & Gonzalo Borja Almeida

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    Germánico-Javier Navas-Moya

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Navas-Moya, MP., Mayorga-Soria, PT., Navas-Moya, GJ., Almeida, G.B. (2021). Alternative Psychological Treatment for Patients with a Diagnosis of Entomophobia with Virtual Reality Environments. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Zamora, W., Larrea Plúa, J., Bazurto Roldan, J., Santamaría Philco, A. (eds) Systems and Information Sciences. ICCIS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59194-6_20

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