A5078494431- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Music Therapy and Health
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Ruhr University Bochum
2020-2025
King's College London
2014-2025
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2016-2022
University of Oxford
2017-2022
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
2019-2022
Bethlem Royal Hospital
2019-2020
Warneford Hospital
2020
Orygen Youth Health
2019
The University of Melbourne
2019
Universitat de Barcelona
2009-2014
A quarter of people with psychotic conditions experience persistent auditory verbal hallucinations, despite treatment. AVATAR therapy (invented by Julian Leff in 2008) is a new approach which who hear voices have dialogue digital representation (avatar) their presumed persecutor, voiced the therapist so that avatar responds becoming less hostile and concedes power over course therapy. We aimed to investigate effect on compared supportive counselling control condition.
Persistent paranoia is common among patients with psychosis. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis can be effective. However, challenges in engagement and effectiveness remain.To investigate the effects on mechanisms of action SlowMo, a digitally supported reasoning intervention, plus usual care compared only.This parallel-arm, assessor-blinded, randomized clinical trial recruited participants at UK community health services from May 1, 2017, to 14, 2019. Eligible consisted referral...
Sense of presence is an important factor influencing the quality virtual reality (VR) experience. However, there limited understanding what factors affect in environments. This study uses a qualitative methodology, specifically thematic analysis, to investigate affecting sense VR social environment that has been designed for psychological assessment. After experiencing bar-room contained interactions with multiple avatars, participants (n = 76) took part semistructured interview. Eight key...
Paranoia is one of the most common symptoms schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and associated with significant distress disruption to person's life. Developing more effective accessible psychological interventions for paranoia a clinical priority. Our research team has approached this challenge in two main ways: firstly, by adopting an interventionist causal approach increase effectiveness secondly, incorporating user-centred inclusive design methods enhance accessibility usability. resultant...
Abstract AVATAR therapy represents an effective new way of working with distressing voices based on face-to-face dialogue between the person and a digital representation (avatar) their persecutory voice. To date, there has been no complete account delivery. This article presents, for first time, full range therapeutic targets along information acceptability potential side effects. Interest in approach is growing rapidly this report acts as necessary touchstone future development.
AVATAR therapy is a novel intervention targeting distressing auditory verbal hallucinations (henceforth 'voices'). A digital simulation (avatar) of the voice created and used in three-way dialogue between participant, avatar therapist. To date, has been delivered over 6 sessions, comprising an initial phase, focusing on standing up to hostile avatar, second phase which concedes focus shifts individualised treatment targets, including beliefs about voices. The first fully powered randomised...
Abstract Background Given the rapid expansion of research into digital health interventions (DHIs) for severe mental illness (SMI; eg, schizophrenia and other psychosis diagnoses), there is an emergent need clear safety measures. Currently, measurement reporting adverse events (AEs) are inconsistent across studies. Therefore, international network, iCharts, was assembled to systematically identify refine a set standard operating procedures (SOPs) AE in DHI studies SMI. Design The iCharts...
Abstract Background Despite evidence linking psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and social functioning deficits in youth at the risk of transitioning to psychosis, this association remains poorly understood. To address this, we explored between components performance PLEs adolescents aged 13–18 using a novel virtual reality (VR) paradigm for real-time assessment. Methods Adolescents ( N = 146) were recruited as part larger cohort study conducted by same research group (YVORI_PRO) invited...
ABSTRACT AVATAR therapy (AT) works by facilitating a ‘face‐to‐face’ dialog between the person and digital representation (avatar) of their persecutory voice. Although there is cumulative evidence this way working with voices, enhancing therapeutic focus on improved confidence sense control voices in social situations represents promising to boost generalization gains into contexts. This paper presents descriptive clinical case example AVATAR_VRSocial therapy, new augmented version AT...
Fear of flying (FF) is an impairing psychological disorder that extremely common in developed countries. The most effective treatment for this particular type phobia exposure therapy. However, there are few studies comparing imaginal (IE) and virtual reality (VR) the FF. present study compared effectiveness these two approaches using manualized interventions based on technique. Patients with FF ( N = 15) were randomly assigned to either VR n 7) or IE therapy 8), consisting a total eight...
Psychological interventions which adopt an explicitly interpersonal approach are a recent development in the treatment of distressing voices. AVATAR therapy is one such creates direct dialogue between voice-hearer and computerised representation their persecutory voice (the avatar) through person may be supported to gain sense greater power control. The main objective trial test clinical efficacy this reduce frequency severity auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). Secondary objectives study...