title: Virtual reality in Latin American clinical psychology and the VREPAR project. Virtual Reality Environments for Psycho-Neuro-physiological Assessment and Rehabilitation.
abstract: Starting with the excellent collective work done by the European Community (EC)-funded Virtual Reality Environments for Psycho-Neuro-physiological Assessment and Rehabilitation (VREPAR) projects, I try to indicate some possible pathways that would allow a better integration of this advanced technology into the reality of Latin American psychology. I myself use analyses that I did in my master's degree in the PUCSP-Catholic University in São Paulo, Brazil. I also include a brief description of the CD-ROM Clinical Psychology Uses of Virtual Reality (CPUVR) that accompanies my thesis. I point out the importance of collaboration between psychology and other disciplines, including computer science. I explain the method that I used to work with digital information, important for the formation of a critical mass of people thinking in Portuguese and Spanish to accelerate a technological jump.
authors.affiliation: Development and Rehabilitation Unit, UNIDER, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. maurorubens@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mauro Rubens
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface