Acrophobia is a disproportionate fear of heights.
The application consists of several virtual environments
that tend to provoke anxiety in a person with fear of
heights (looking down in an apartment building, being
at different heights, riding a Ferris Wheel, etc…)
Each one of these situations is accompanied by different
stimuli that facilitate the exposure of the patient to
what he or she fears, doing so repeatedly and at their
own rhythm.
The exposure occurs at the therapist’s office
allowing this setting to approach different contexts,
and it offers the patient security in that nothing of
what he or she fears is “really” going to
happen.
Also, the virtual environments are specially designed
to facilitate and promote the emotional processing,
and the change of meaning of situations that the patient
has always considered as dangerous.
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