{"id":281,"date":"2017-12-19T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:11:41","slug":"encompassing-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Encompassing Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>San Diego, CA<\/strong>: On September 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017, Interactive Media Institute (IMI) traveled to Riverside, California to present at the annual Encompassing Mental Health (EMH) conference. Organized by\u00a0<em>Reach Out<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Inland Health Professions Coalition<\/em>\u2014a youth development organization\u2014this event educated high school juniors and seniors in the Moreno Valley area on behavioral health practice, pathway, and occupations. IMI\u2019s representative, Ian Miller, spoke to the conference attendees about the use of virtual reality in behavioral health interventions and the importance of increasing access to mental health services in their community. Additionally, the attendees participated in a group discussion about destigmatizing mental illness. When asked about what they had learned, one student planning to study psychology in college said \u201cI\u2019d never heard of virtual reality therapy until today, but it\u2019s an interesting new field in psychology!\u201d While receiving a demonstration on the use of virtual reality relaxation in the treatment of anxiety disorders, another attendee said \u201cIt\u2019s so cool that I can just put on this headset and sit on a beach to relax.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA: On September 29th, 2017, Interactive Media Institute (IMI) traveled to Riverside, California to present at the annual Encompassing Mental Health (EMH) conference. Organized by\u00a0Reach Out\u00a0and the\u00a0Inland Health Professions Coalition\u2014a youth development organization\u2014this event educated high school juniors and seniors in the Moreno Valley area on behavioral health practice, pathway, and occupations. IMI\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}