Do it yourself! Evaluation of self-help habit reversal training versus decoupling in pathological skin picking: A pilot study

Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-47

  Moritz, Steffen ^a   Fricke, Susanne ^a   Treszl, András ^a   Wittekind, Charlotte E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior therapy; Cognition; Decoupling; Habit reversal training; Impulse control; Skin picking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOUPLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HABIT REVERSAL TRAINING; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED SKIN PICKING SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL SKIN PICKING; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF HELP;

EID: 84861160553     PISSN: 22113649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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