Realization of Self-guided Mental Healthcare Through the Digital Content based on The Counseling Technique SAT Method on IPSJ Transactions on Digital Content

Takeshi Kamita, Atsuko Matsumoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Tomoo Inoue, Realization of self-guided mental healthcare through the digital content based on the counseling technique SAT method, IPSJ Transactions on Digital Content, Vol.6, No.2, pp.32-41, 2018.8.

Abstract:The need of mental health management in an enterprise has become widely recognized. How-ever, as the number of workers is extremely large, constantly scheduled mental healthcare is not easy. Thisstudy selects and extends the SAT method out of many established counseling techniques. It does not re-quire patients to tell their chief complaints and is a relatively simple and structured method of using visualstimulations such as images of light and positive facial expressions in 5 to 10 minutes, thus fit well for aself-guided course. We developed a self-guided digital mental healthcare course SAT-VR, and the VR toolfor the method. The effect of SAT-VR method was investigated with 11 college and graduate students bythe difference of psychological measures before and after experiencing SAT-VR. Significant or marginally sig-nificant improvement in anxiousness, depression, need for counseling, and self-esteem was observed. In thisresearch, stress reduction effect in general life was confirmed without intervention of mental health experts,by implementing the mental healthcare course by SAT-VR method with