Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment of Trichotillomania: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Objective: This study is the first controlled trial of comprehensive behavioral (ComB) treatment of trichotillomania (TTM). ComB provides individualized treatment based on factors triggering and maintaining hair pulling.

Method: Participants (N = 36) were adults (M = 34.

Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania: A Treatment Development Study.

This study aimed to concretize and pilot test comprehensive behavioral (ComB) treatment of trichotillomania (TTM), to facilitate rigorous testing of its efficacy. ComB provides a conceptualization to develop individualized treatment and choose interventions for managing distinct factors that maintain the individual's hair pulling. It has been used by clinicians for almost three decades, yet was not previously manualized or studied empirically.

Getting the word out: cognitive-behavioral therapy for trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin-picking) disorder.

Background: To date, there has been no investigation of dissemination outcomes for cognitive-behavioral training programs for body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs).

Methods: Sixty-three past participants of the Trichotillomania Learning Center (TLC) intensive professional training institutes completed an online survey assessing referral sources, skills utilization, and treatment outcomes before and after training. The intensive training focused on the treatment of trichotillomania (hair-pulling) disorder and excoriation (skin-picking) disorder using in-person or videotaped didactics, role playing, and case presentations with supervision upon request.

Hair pulling and its affective correlates in an African-American university sample.

Like other clinical phenomena, repetitive hair pulling in African-Americans has attracted little systematic investigation. Slightly over 200 participants were recruited from a historically black university. Participants completed the Hair Pulling Scale [Stanley, M.

Tic or compulsion?: it's Tourettic OCD.

A subgroup of individuals suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) frequently present to treatment with an atypical yet distinguishable array of symptoms akin to both Tourette's disorder (TD) and OCD. These individuals often receive standard treatments for OCD (or less likely, TD) that fail to address the blended features of their presentation. It is argued that these individuals would be better served, both psychotherapeutically and pharmacologically, by the adoption of a Tourettic OCD (TOCD) conceptual framework.