Location: Online (ZOOM) - link by registration (registration deadline 28 September)
Language: English

Title: Virtual reality in assessing and managing severe mental disorders and aggression.

Short summary of the presentation: The presentation will provide an overview of how virtual reality technology has been, and can be, used to assist assessment and treatment of severe mental disorders and aggression. Ongoing and planned research projects will be described, and open up discussions on how virtual reality technology can be applied in the assessment and treatment of destructive behaviors and mental illness.

Speakers:

• Märta Wallinius - Associate professor, Department Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University & Research director, Regional forensic psychiatric clinic, Växjö.
  More information about Märta Wallinius in Swedish.
• Kristina Sygel - Post doc, Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg & Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine. 
  More information about Kristina Sygel in Swedish
• Fernando González Moraga - PhD student, Department Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University & Regional forensic psychiatric clinic, Växjö.
• David Ivarsson - PhD student, Department Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University & Swedish Prison and Probation Service.