ACT and Virtual Reality for Public Speaking Fear

"Acceptance and Commitment Therapy methods were focused on promoting Values clarification, Acceptance, Cognitive defusion, Committed action and Flexible attention to the present moment, and included 'The dreamed professional exercise' -variation on 'imagine your funeral exercise'-, Ship's captain metaphor, Imaginal exposure, Physicalizing exercise, and Watching thoughts as graffiti."

The audience was made up of university students. Every session included a 12 minute oral presentation. Participants were asked to improvise a talk about a new topic (e.g. violence against women, education system in Spain…). Participants had 3 minutes to prepare their speech. Difficulty increased based on each participant's pre assessment (topics and distractors as ringtones, audience whispering...)

"Virtual reality was delivered through Psious platform distributed in Spain by TEA and through a Virtual Reality equipment that included a Samsung S7 mobile and Samsung Gear VR glasses.~Every session included a 12 minute oral presentation. Participants were asked to improvise a talk about a new topic (e.g. violence against women, education system in Spain…). Participants had 3 minutes to prepare their speech. Difficulty increased based on each participant's pre assessment (topics and distractors as ringtones, audience whispering...)"