Marilyn Flynn and Skip Rizzo: Treating Post Traumatic Stress with Virtual Reality

Of the more than 1.6 million men and women deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly one-third are expected to return with disabling combat stress disorders that may affect some for a lifetime if left untreated.

Through and unlikely marriage of social work and cutting edge technology, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC School of Social Work are revolutionizing the training methods for a new generation of mental health professionals, shifting the way clinicians learn to interact with their patients.

Introduction: Marilyn Flynn, Dean, USC School of Social Work
Virtual Reality Demonstration: Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Research Scientist, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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