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In this study 436 adults, who reported being diagnosed with trichotillomania (TTM), completed an anonymous survey examining the relationship between experiential avoidance (i.e., escape from or avoidance of unwanted thoughts or emotions) and TTM severity. Results showed a significant positive correlation between measures of experiential avoidance and TTM severity, indicating that more experientially avoidant individuals tended to exhibit more severe TTM. Subsequent analyses found that persons who scored higher on a measure of experiential avoidance reported more frequent and intense urges to pull, were less able to control their urges, and experienced more pulling-related distress than persons who were not experientially avoidant. Conversely, results also showed that individuals who were more experientially avoidant were no more likely to actually pull and were no less successful in actually stopping themselves from pulling than non-avoidant individuals. The results of this study suggest that experiential avoidance may be an important issue in understanding and possibly treating some persons with TTM. ... Read more

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Title: The relationship of violence and trichotillomania. (Clinical Scholarship).
Author: Susan Boughn
Publication: Journal of Nursing Scholarship (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Volume: 35Issue: 2Page: 165(6)

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This digital document is an article from Skin & Allergy News, published by International Medical News Group on September 1, 2009. The length of the article is 540 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Amino acid may be effective for trichotillomania.(ACROSS SPECIALTIES)
Author: Mary Ann Moon
Publication: Skin & Allergy News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 40Issue: 9Page: 40(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Post-treatment evaluation studies of behaviour therapy (BT) for trichotillomania (TTM) have shown that BT is successful in reducing symptoms in this impulse-control disorder. The present study was aimed at investigating gain maintenance at long-term follow-up. TTM-related symptoms and other symptom characteristics were evaluated in 28 patients suffering from TTM before and after brief BT and at a 3-month and 2-year follow-up. The manual-based BT consisted of self-control procedures offered in six sessions. Pre-post effect sizes for TTM symptoms at post-treatment evaluation and at the two follow-ups were 2.91, 1.47, and .87. Compared to the post-treatment effects, the 3-month and 2-year follow-up effect sizes had decreased by 49% and 70%, respectively. Better 2-year follow-up results were associated with lower pre-treatment levels of depressive symptoms and with complete abstinence from hairpulling immediately after treatment. ... Read more

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This study explored the impact of hair pulling on psychosocial functioning for patients diagnosed with trichotillomania (TTM; n=28). TTM patients were compared to age and gender-matched groups of psychiatric patients without TTM (n=28) and nonpsychiatric control volunteers (NC, n=28) on measures of psychological distress, functioning/quality of life, and self-esteem. Results indicated that TTM patients reported more severe psychosocial impairments than did NC volunteers; however, these differences were mediated by differences in level of depression. Regression analyses indicated significant relationships between some measures of psychosocial functioning and severity of hair pulling, independent of level of depression. Finally, an interview of the impact of hair pulling on 6 domains of daily functioning (negative affect/negative self-evaluations, grooming, recreational activities, social interaction, work/housework productivity, and physical health) indicated common and wide-ranging impairments for both lifetime and current (i.e., past week) ratings. These results highlight the importance of promoting and improving resources for the clinical care of TTM patients, and provide some directions for clinicians to enhance assessment of interference caused by TTM. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Alceste a nine-year-old boy consults for a trichotillomania, wich is developing since four years. In many cases, the body is the place where childhood expresses its uneasiness. Hair is interface between interior and external reality, between intimacy and social field. Attack on hair, as it is offered to one's sight, seems singular to us. Hair has a huge symbolical value: power and vital strength are often associated with it. It's an element of seduction and erotism but also, in a more general way, of identity and humanity. Gesture related to the hair needs to be studied in this cultural context. We review papers addressing psychoanalytical studies on hairs, from Freud and Anzieu. Winnicott's theory of potential space and transitional phenomena enlights the clinical case of Alceste and the development's failure of the separation and individuation's process. ... Read more

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Cognitive inhibition was investigated in 21 trichotillomania (TTM), 21 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and 26 healthy control (HC) participants using a block cued directed forgetting task. After encoding a word list, participants were instructed to intentionally FORGET these words and to REMEMBER another word list. Both lists included TTM-related and neutral (kitchen-related) words in equal proportions, with the TTM-related words generally of negative valence and the kitchen-related words generally of neutral valence for all participants. A superior free recall of REMEMBER versus FORGET words suggests intact cognitive inhibition. The performance of OCD participants indicated a specific deficit in inhibiting the retrieval of information with negative valence, which was not found in TTM. HC participants, in contrast to TTM and OCD participants, were rather inattentive to negative information. In conclusion, although attention was disproportionately directed towards negative information in both disorders, cognitive inhibition deficits appeared specific to OCD. ... Read more

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Avoiding hard-to-understand medical jargon, the four-volume “Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health” uses language that parents can understand, while still providing enough depth to benefit today's health science students. The set provides in-depth coverage of pediatric diseases and disorders, along with issues related to physical and cognitive/behavioral development.

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Trichotillomania," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Trichotillomania in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Trichotillomania when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Trichotillomania, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This randomized trial compared a combined Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Habit Reversal Training (ACT/HRT) to a waitlist control in the treatment of adults with trichotillomania (TTM). Twenty-five participants (12 treatment and 13 waitlist) completed the trial. Results demonstrated a significant reduction in hair pulling severity, impairment ratings, and hairs pulled, along with significant reductions in experiential avoidance and both anxiety and depressive symptoms in the ACT/HRT group compared to the waitlist control. Reductions generally were maintained at a 3-month follow-up. Decreases in experiential avoidance and greater treatment compliance were significantly correlated with reductions in TTM severity, implying that targeting experiential avoidance may be useful in the treatment of TTM. Other implications and suggestions for future research are noted. ... Read more

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A nineteenth-century French dermatologist combined the words trich (hair), tillo (to pull), and mania (uncontrollable) to give the name trichotillomania to the compulsive, irresistible urge to pull out hair. This common and sometimes severe medical disorder can cause great personal distress, feelings of embarrassment and humiliation, and disruption of social relationships and vocational goals. Chronic hair-pulling is classified in psychiatry today as an impulse control disorder, along with compulsive gambling and kleptomania, and is often associated with depression or anxiety. Researchers estimate that between 2 and 4 percent of the U.S. population has trichotillomania. Women seem to be affected more often than men; estimates suggest a 10:1 ratio. Drs. Anders and Jefferson examine the disorder and its treatment, offering knowledge and hope to sufferers and their families. ... Read more

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This book is a great resource for friends and family who want to know more about trichotillomania. It is short and easy to read. The book is filled with important information for those living with trich and the people who love them. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Self-harm (SH) or deliberate self-harm (DSH) includes self-injury (SI) and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue without suicidal intent. The most common form of self-harm is skin cutting but self-harm also covers a wide range of behaviours including burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts, interfering with wound healing, hair pulling (Trichotillomania) and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. Behaviours associated with substance abuse and eating disorders are usually not considered self-harm because the resulting tissue damage is ordinarily an unintentional side effect. ... Read more

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Title: Hair biopsy might assist in diagnosing trichotillomania.(Skin Disorders)
Author: Sherry Boschert
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 15, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 22Page: 26(1)

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on October 15, 2004. The length of the article is 486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hair pulling in children usually self-limiting.(Skin Disorders)
Author: Mitchel L. Zoler
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 15, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 34Issue: 20Page: 32(1)

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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1216 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The third edition of this authoritative, comprehensive, in-depth medical guide features information on medical topics in language accessible to adult laypersons. Disease/disorder articles typically cover definition; description; causes and symptoms; diagnosis; treatments; prevention; and more. Test/treatment articles typically cover definition; purposes; precautions; preparation; risks; normal and abnormal results; and much more. ... Read more