Use of Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool for Behavioural Exposure in the Ambit of Social

We hereby present a study whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research protocol, accepted by the ethical commission of the cantonal hospices’ psychiatry service, is identical in content and structure for each patient. This study’s second goal is to use the confines of virtual exposure to objectively evaluate a specific parameter present in social phobia, namely eye contact avoidance, by using an eyetracking system. Analysis of our results shows that there is a tendency to improvement in both the questionnaires and eye contact avoidance.