The Therapeutic Lamp: Treating Small-Animal Phobias

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Wrzesien ◽  
M. Alcaiz ◽  
C. Botella ◽  
J-M Burkhardt ◽  
J. Breton-Lopez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Animal ◽  
Animal Phobias

Treating small animal phobias using a projective-augmented reality system: A single-case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 343-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Wrzesien ◽  
Cristina Botella ◽  
Juana Bretón-López ◽  
Eva del Río González ◽  
Jean-Marie Burkhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Augmented Reality System ◽  
System A ◽  
Animal Phobias

scholarly journals Assisting therapists in assessing small animal phobias by computer analysis of video-recorded sessions

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (20) ◽  
pp. 21033-21049
Author(s):  
Vicente Castelló ◽  
V. Javier Traver ◽  
Berenice Serrano ◽  
Raúl Montoliu ◽  
Cristina Botella
Keyword(s):  
Computer Analysis ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Animal Phobias

scholarly journals Towards a Taxonomy of Feedback Factors Affecting the User Experience of Augmented Reality Exposure Therapy Systems for Small-Animal Phobias

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Ramírez-Fernández ◽  
Alberto L. Morán ◽  
Victoria Meza-Kubo
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Exposure Therapy ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Animal Phobias ◽  
Virtual Reality Exposure

Small-animal phobias has been treated using in vivo exposure therapies (IVET) and virtual reality exposure therapies (VRET). Recently, augmented reality for exposure therapies (ARET) has also been presented and validated as a suitable tool. In this work we identified an ensemble of feedback factors that affect the user experience of patients using ARET systems for the treatment of small-animal phobias, and propose a taxonomy to characterize this kind of applications according to the feedback factors used in the application. Further, we present a customized version of the taxonomy by considering factors/attributes specific to the visual stimuli. To the best of our knowledge, no other work has identified nor provided an explicit classification or taxonomy of factors that affect the user experience of patients using this kind of systems for the treatment of small-animal phobias. Our final aim is to two-fold: (i) provide a tool for the design, classification and evaluation of this kind of systems, and (ii) inspire others to conduct further work on this topic.

scholarly journals Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctions

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1583) ◽  
pp. 3453-3465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham C. L. Davey
Keyword(s):  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Disease Avoidance ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Injection Injury ◽  
Interpretation Biases ◽  
Animal Phobias ◽  
Shame And Guilt

This review analyses the accumulating evidence from psychological, psychophysiological, neurobiological and cognitive studies suggesting that the disease-avoidance emotion of disgust is a predominant emotion experienced in a number of psychopathologies. Current evidence suggests that disgust is significantly related to small animal phobias (particularly spider phobia), blood–injection–injury phobia and obsessive–compulsive disorder contamination fears, and these are all disorders that have primary disgust elicitors as a significant component of their psychopathology. Disgust propensity and sensitivity are also significantly associated with measures of a number of other psychopathologies, including eating disorders, sexual dysfunctions, hypochondriasis, height phobia, claustrophobia, separation anxiety, agoraphobia and symptoms of schizophrenia—even though many of these psychopathologies do not share the disease-avoidance functionality that characterizes disgust. There is accumulating evidence that disgust does represent an important vulnerability factor for many of these psychopathologies, but when disgust-relevant psychopathologies do meet the criteria required for clinical diagnosis, they are characterized by significant levels of both disgust and fear/anxiety. Finally, it has been argued that disgust may also facilitate anxiety and distress across a broad range of psychopathologies through its involvement in more complex human emotions such as shame and guilt, and through its effect as a negative affect emotion generating threat-interpretation biases.

Note on Demand Characteristics in Analogue Research on Small Animal Phobias

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1264-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy A. Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Present Report ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Factor ◽  
Demand Characteristics ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Animal Phobias ◽  
Analogue Research ◽  
Experimental Findings

The present report reviewed the analogue literature on small animal phobias to determine the extent to which researchers employed “blind” experimenters in the assessment of behavioral fear. A total of 87 analogue studies on small animal phobias appearing between January, 1971 and December, 1976 in six professional journals were reviewed. The review showed that only 29% of the studies clearly indicated the employment of “blind” assessors. The results of the review suggest that journal reviewers have been relatively insensitive to this critical design factor and that future research should take the steps necessary to eliminate this major alternative explanation of experimental findings.

Recommendations for Intensive Care Management in Small Animals Following Anaesthesia

1992 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Karol Mathews ◽  
Doris Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Small Animals ◽  
Monitoring Equipment ◽  
Intensive Care Management ◽  
Good Communication

Intensive care management can be provided in a small animal facility by centralisation of emergency and monitoring equipment. Good communication between all personnel involved in the case ensures that staff are prepared for complications that could arise related to recovery from anaesthesia.

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