Publications about Avatar Therapy

Leff, J., Williams, G., Huckvale, M., Arbuthnot, M., & Leff, A. P. (2014). Avatar Therapy for persecutory auditory hallucinations: What is it and how does it work?. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.

Craig, T., Rus-Calafel, M., Ward, T., Fornells-Ambrojo, M., mcCrone, P., Emsley, R., Garety, P. (2015). The effects of an Audio Visual Assisted Therapy Aid for Refractory auditory hallucinations (AVATAR therapy): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials (2015) 16:349.
Rus-Calafell M, Garety P, Ward T, Williams G, Huckvale M, Leff J, Craig TK., "Confronting Auditory Hallucinations Using Virtual Reality: The Avatar Therapy", Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;219:192-6. [PMID:26799906]

Craig T, Ward T, Rus-Calafell M., "AVATAR Therapy for Refractory Auditory Hallucinations", In: Pradhan B, Pinninti N, Rathod S, editors. Brief Interventions for Psychosis: A Clinical Compendium. London: Springer; 2016. Chapter 4. [PMID:27386617]

Craig, T., Rus-Calafell, M., Ward, T., Leff, J., Huckvale, M., Howarth, E., Emsley, R., Garety, P. (2018). AVATAR therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations in people with psychosis: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry 5 p31-40..
Hall, J, Rus-Calafell, M, Omari-Asor, L, Ward, T, Emsley, R, Garety, P & Craig, TKJ. (2018) Assessing the subjective experience of participating in a clinical trial (AVATAR). Psychiatry Research, vol. 263, pp. 82-87.

Ward T, Rus-Calafell M, Ramadhan Z, Soumelidou O, Fornells-Ambrojo M, Garety P, Craig TKJ. "AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Comprehensive Account of Therapeutic Targets", Schizophr Bull. 2020 May 6;46(5):1038-44. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa061. Online ahead of print. [PMID:32372082]
Rus-Calafell M, Ward T, Zhang XC, Edwards CJ, Garety P, Craig T., "The Role of Sense of Voice Presence and Anxiety Reduction in AVATAR Therapy" J Clin Med. 2020 Aug 25;9(9):2748. doi: 10.3390/jcm9092748. [PMID:32854387]

Garety, P., Edwards, C., Ward, T., Emsley, R., Huckvale, M., McCrone, P., Rus-Calafell, M., Fornells-Ambrojo, M., Gumley, A., Haddock, G., Bucci, S., McLeod, H., Hardy, A., Peters, E., Myin-Germeys, I., Craig, T. "Optimising AVATAR therapy for people who hear distressing voices. Study protocol for the AVATAR2 multi-centre randomised controlled trial", Trials, 2021.

Rus-Calafell, M., Ehrbar, N., Ward, T., Edwards, C., Huckvale, M., Walke, J., Garety, P., Craig, T., Participants' experiences of AVATAR therapy for distressing voices: a thematic qualitative evaluation, BMC Psychiatry (2022) 22:356.