ZHU Youwei, ZHAO Rong, ZHUANG Wenxu, ZHANG Weibo, CHEN Chunmei, KANG Minyu, ZHU Yi, BIAN Qian, CAI Jun
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The pathogenesis and outcome of severe mental illnesses were affected by various factors including neurobiology, psychology, and society. As a newly developed technological means, virtual reality provides a new approach for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders, and has received increasing attention. In this paper, a SWOT analysis was used to identify the internal environment's strengths and weaknesses and the external environment's opportunities and threats relating to the development and application of virtual reality technology in the treatment of psychosis. In addition, a SWOT matrix analysis was used to propose corresponding development strategies, that through the top-level design of the mental health service system to encourage the participation of social forces and multi-disciplinary cooperation, to enhance the integration of hospital-community mental health services network, to strengthen targeted interventions for key populations, to promote the development of telemedicine-based rehabilitation services, to emphasize on team establishment and recruitment of health professionals, to improve community mental health service systems, to improve the incentive compensation mechanisms, and to promote the participation of the whole society in the provision of guarantee for the virtual reality-based intervention services for patients with severe mental illnesses.