AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Comprehensive Account of Therapeutic Targets

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) of their persecutory voice. To date, there has been no complete account of AVATAR therapy delivery. This article presents, for the...

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Autores principales: Ward, Thomas, Rus-Calafell, Mar, Ramadhan, Zeyana, Soumelidou, Olga, Fornells-Ambrojo, Miriam, Garety, Philippa, Craig, Tom K J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Schizophrenia In Translation—Feature Editor: Svein Friis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32372082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa061
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author Ward, Thomas
Rus-Calafell, Mar
Ramadhan, Zeyana
Soumelidou, Olga
Fornells-Ambrojo, Miriam
Garety, Philippa
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description 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) of their persecutory voice. To date, there has been no complete account of AVATAR therapy delivery. This article presents, for the first time, the full range of therapeutic targets along with information on acceptability and potential side effects. Interest in the approach is growing rapidly and this report acts as a necessary touchstone for future development.
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spelling pubmed-75051852020-09-28 AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Comprehensive Account of Therapeutic Targets Ward, Thomas Rus-Calafell, Mar Ramadhan, Zeyana Soumelidou, Olga Fornells-Ambrojo, Miriam Garety, Philippa Craig, Tom K J Schizophr Bull Schizophrenia In Translation—Feature Editor: Svein Friis 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) of their persecutory voice. To date, there has been no complete account of AVATAR therapy delivery. This article presents, for the first time, the full range of therapeutic targets along with information on acceptability and potential side effects. Interest in the approach is growing rapidly and this report acts as a necessary touchstone for future development. Oxford University Press 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7505185/ /pubmed/32372082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa061 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Garety, Philippa
Craig, Tom K J
AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Comprehensive Account of Therapeutic Targets
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