Styles of pulling in youths with trichotillomania: Exploring differences in symptom severity, phenomenology, and comorbid psychiatric symptoms

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1055-1061

  Flessner, Christopher A ^a   Woods, Douglas W ^a   Franklin, Martin E ^b   Keuthen, Nancy J ^c   Piacentini, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TLC SAB)

Author keywords

Automatic; Focused; Pulling styles; Trichotillomania; Youths

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILWAUKEE INVENTORY FOR STYLES OF TRICHOTILLOMANIA CHILD VERSION; PHENOMENOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 50449102635     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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