Abstract
This paper describes the treatment of an adolescent girl (age 16) who received the ACT with RAGE-Control intervention during
her treatment in an urban inpatient psychiatry unit. ACT with RAGE-Control utilizes five traditional Cognitive Behavioral
techniques combined with an active biofeedback videogame designed to strengthen a patient’s self-regulatory capacities while
facing simulated stress in a virtual environment. The treatment is delivered as daily individual psychotherapy sessions over
five consecutive days of an inpatient psychiatric admission. The following case illustrates the theory and techniques of the
ACT with RAGE-Control intervention.
her treatment in an urban inpatient psychiatry unit. ACT with RAGE-Control utilizes five traditional Cognitive Behavioral
techniques combined with an active biofeedback videogame designed to strengthen a patient’s self-regulatory capacities while
facing simulated stress in a virtual environment. The treatment is delivered as daily individual psychotherapy sessions over
five consecutive days of an inpatient psychiatric admission. The following case illustrates the theory and techniques of the
ACT with RAGE-Control intervention.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Paper
- Pages 1-10
- DOI 10.1007/s10615-011-0363-0
- Authors
- Peter Ducharme, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Elizabeth Wharff, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Eliza Hutchinson, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Jason Kahn, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Grace Logan, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Fegan 8, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Journal Clinical Social Work Journal
- Online ISSN 1573-3343
- Print ISSN 0091-1674