Simona Nastase

Simona Nastase
  • Master of Science
  • Clinical Psychologist at independent

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  • Clinical Psychologist

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Publications (6)
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Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a novel intervention technique that allows individuals to experience anxiety-evoking stimuli in a safe environment, recognise specific triggers and gradually increase their exposure to perceived threats. Public-speaking anxiety (PSA) is a prevalent form of social anxiety, characterised by stressful arousal...
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Virtual-reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a novel intervention technique that allows individuals to experience anxiety-evoking stimuli in a safe environment, recognise specific triggers and gradually increase their exposure to perceived threats. Public-speaking anxiety (PSA) is a prevalent form of social anxiety, characterised by stressful arousal...
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Virtual-reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a novel intervention technique that allows individuals to experience anxiety evoking stimuli in a safe environment, to recognise specific triggers and gradually increase their exposure to perceived threats. Public-speaking anxiety (PSA) is very common form of social anxiety, characterised by stressful arou...
Chapter
At the beginning of the year 2020 life has changed for most of us around the world from what we knew was our normal. This non-normal started with restrictions, social distancing and lockdowns. On a micro level the experience of the lockdown has definitely been different for everyone. In our short study we focused on a few interviews and we achieved...
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Background The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the physical and mental health of people everywhere. The aim of the study is to understand how people living in 15 countries around the globe experience an unexpected crisis which threatens their health and that of loved ones, and how they make meaning of this disruption in the...
Poster
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In the present poster, we introduced an intervention that has the potential to be a non-clinical alternative for reducing symptoms for both subclinical social anxiety and depression. The intervention called “12-week Acting & Improv” has educational and psychotherapeutic purposes by aiming to expose young adults to social and performance situations...

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