The virtual environments of C2Care reproduce ecological situations integrating craving cues. The patient confronts the object of his addiction while the practitioner works on permissive thoughts and problematic behavior.
Developed for tobacco, alcohol, gambling and drugs, this solution exposes the patient in complete security and confidentiality within the office.
Exposure to situations associated with consumption can be relevant in supporting patients with addiction. However, reproducing these contexts in consultation is not always simple.
A bar, a casino or a tobacconist depends on an external environment, sometimes on the presence of third parties, and their access during a session remains difficult to organize. The progressiveness of exposure, essential to working on craving, is also complicated to control in these conditions.
Virtual reality makes it possible to recreate these ecological situations directly in the office, in a controlled, confidential and reproducible environment from one session to the next.
The C2Care environments allow you to recreate craving-generating situations specific to each addiction. In a bar or at home, the patient finds the clues associated with alcohol consumption or moments of solitude conducive to permissive thoughts. In a casino or a tobacco shop, he is confronted with the specific stimuli of gambling or purchasing tobacco.
From his interface, the practitioner chooses the environment adapted to the objectives of the session and adjusts the exposure in real time according to the patient's reaction.
These situations can be repeated and gradually integrated into the protocol in order to work with the patient on the intensity of the craving, as well as on permissive thoughts and automatisms linked to problematic behavior.
VRET
The practitioner seats the patient on a swivel chair and fits them with the virtual reality headset
Using the control interface, the practitioner selects the environment suited to the session's goals and starts the exposure.
During immersion, the practitioner supports the patient using a visual feed and can adjust the exposure scene in real time
Environments
Each environment reproduces an ecological situation generating craving.
Bar, home, supermarket, nightclub and evening with friends are represented.
The casino and the lottery point of sale allow you to work on the stimuli of the game.
The home, office and evening scenes allow you to work on temptation.
Apartment, squat, bar and party environments cover several consumptions.
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Solène Montègue
Neuropsychiatrist
The developments C2Care is currently integrating into the interface are very promising and meet the established therapeutic objectives [...]: offering tailored exercises that can be adapted to levels of dependency, cognitive disorders, and patients' real-time responses.
Samia Lahya
Psychiatrist
With the acquisition of new equipment [...] and updates to the C2Care programs, its use has expanded even further: OCD, phobias, addictions, anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Ten years later, it is no longer merely a curiosity, but a genuine therapeutic tool that is stimulating, innovative, and effective.
Sabrina Gineau
Psychologist
I incorporate this technology into brief therapies lasting two to four months, with one session per week. I begin with relaxation techniques and, when patients are ready, we proceed. It makes it much easier to expose people to these situations.
Noël Schepers
Psychologist
Virtual reality can enrich and personalize treatment, facilitate patient-therapist collaboration in developing the treatment plan, and add a playful dimension. The possibilities for development and application are immense and extend to every area of psychology and psychotherapy.
Mélanie Boucherot
Psychologist
The value of this technology [C2Care] lies in offering new possibilities for therapeutic support and expanding the range of tools available to healthcare professionals.
François Maltese
Psychologist
For several months, we have been using virtual reality in habituation therapies. Before the procedure, patients are progressively and immersively exposed to their future medical environment and psychologically prepared to accept it.
Dre Marie-Claude Roberge
Doctor of Psychology
Since 2022, we have been using virtual reality therapy with the C2Care platform to simulate exposure to aversive stimuli and triggers that cause anxiety. Exposure therapy is used to treat specific phobias, including fear of heights, enclosed spaces, flying, dogs, emetophobia, and many others.
Dr Laure Du Pouget
Urologist
Using a virtual reality headset for self-hypnosis during prostate biopsies creates a calm atmosphere for a procedure that can sometimes be uncomfortable, even with effective local anesthesia...
Delphine Py
Psychologist
Thank you to C2Care for providing innovative virtual reality solutions to support CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)! A major step forward in making exposure exercises easier and helping our patients overcome their phobias.
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Distinct EEG cue-reactivity profiles associated with virtual-reality treatment responses in methamphetamine use disorder
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FAQ
Here are the answers to the questions most asked by practitioners about the treatment of addictions in virtual reality with C2Care.
Craving refers to the compelling desire to consume a substance or perform an addictive behavior. C2Care places craving indices in ecological environments to allow the practitioner to assess its severity and work on its intensity with the patient.
C2Care provides environments for the treatment of addiction to tobacco, alcohol, gambling and drugs. In virtuo therapies are validated for exposure to these different addictions.
Different contexts are accessible depending on the targeted pathology: bar, home, casino. Situations conducive to the emergence of permissive thoughts are also proposed, such as waiting or social contexts, in order to generate craving.
The in virtuo exposure allows one to free oneself from the ethical and ecological limits of the exposure in vivo and by imagination. The practitioner reproduces realistic situations in the office, in complete safety and confidentiality for the patient.
The environments result from cooperation between the C2Care scientific team and academics specializing in addictionology. They have been designed to enable the assessment, treatment and prevention of relapse risks.
In virtuo therapies have been the subject of numerous studies on their effectiveness in addiction. Authors highlight their interest in imaginative exposure, particularly for generating dysfunctional automatic thoughts useful for cognitive restructuring.
The practitioner works on both active cognitive processes, such as permissive thoughts and dysfunctional beliefs, and on problematic behavior. The objective is to provide the patient with methods to manage their addiction.
In virtuo exposure makes it possible to overcome the ethical and ecological limits of exposure by imagination and in vivo in addiction, while obtaining a comparable intensity of craving.
The environments of C2Care were designed with academics specializing in addiction to allow the assessment, treatment and prevention of relapse risks by putting craving at the forefront.
Virtual reality and augmented reality generate significantly more dysfunctional automatic thoughts than imaginative exposure, making them a relevant tool for cognitive restructuring work.
C2Care allows the patient to be exposed to their craving cues in complete security and confidentiality, directly in the practitioner's office.
C2Care is aimed at practitioners caring for patients suffering from addiction to tobacco, alcohol, drugs or gambling, in the context of office work.
The practitioner chooses the ecological context adapted to the targeted pathology (bar, home, casino) and selects, with the patient, the stimuli that most generate craving.
Situations conducive to the emergence of permissive thoughts (waiting, home, social contexts) favor the appearance of craving. Therapeutic work focuses on both these thoughts and the associated problematic behavior.
In virtuo therapies are validated for exposure to addiction to tobacco, drugs, alcohol and gambling, with significant results giving them strong clinical interest.
