Trichotillomania: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
✍ Scribed by Victoria E. White Kress; Brandy L. Kelly; Laura J. McCormick
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
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✦ Synopsis
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.
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