Abstract
This study discusses how to activate virtual reality psychological counseling services using the Metaverse platform. Currently, platform and virtual reality are new industries that are attracting attention, and research and services utilizing them are being conducted in the field of psychological counseling. However, there is a lack of discussion on the concepts, components, and ethical issues of virtual reality psychological counseling using the Metaverse platform. Therefore, this study aims to present the main concepts, components, and ethical issues of virtual reality psychological counseling. In addition, the role and importance of virtual environments, avatars, and counseling tools in the metaverse platform are analyzed, and ethical issues that may arise in virtual reality psychological counseling are derived and appropriate measures are sought. As a research method, A literature survey was conducted to analyze previous studies and derive ethical issues arising from non-face-to-face counseling, which is psychological counseling using the metaverse platform. In addition, this study presented opinions on how to intervene in the crisis caused by anonymity that may occur on the metaverse psychological counseling platform, which provides various services to virtual reality psychological counseling professionals using the metaverse platform, privacy, rights protection, and capacity building.
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