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Trichotillomania: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Author(s) -
Kress Victoria E. White,
Kelly Brandy L.,
McCormick Laura J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2004.tb00300.x
Subject(s) - etiology , psychological intervention , psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , impulse control disorder , clinical psychology , medicine , pathology , pathological
This article examines the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of trichotillomania (the recurrent desire to pull out one's hair). The authors provide a brief review both of proposed etiologies of trichotillomania and of the diagnostic and assessment issues related to this disorder, and they discuss interventions and treatments that have been shown to be most efficacious when working with clients diagnosed with trichotillomania.