Full Description
Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat and few effective therapeutic options exist. This Therapist Guide for the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Trichotillomania (AEBT-T), and the accompanying client workbook, is a 10-session program designed to teach therapists how to help clients reduce their pulling, think differently about the internal experiences that trigger pulling, and learn to live a more valued life.
The approach blends traditional behavior therapy approaches of habit reversal training and stimulus control techniques with a more contemporary ACT-based approach. This ACT-based approach teaches clients to behave flexibly and concert with their values whenever they face the uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, urges, and cravings that often trigger the pulling. Since its original publication in 2008, AEBT-T has been studied extensively and shown to be effective in individual and group format using both face-to-face and telehealth modalities. Emerging evidence suggests the treatment can also be successfully applied to older children and adolescents, and this latest version of the manual describes how the treatment can be modified for these populations.
Fully updated to reflect new research and organized in an easy-to-use session-by-session format with accompanying therapy support forms and materials, this intervention has proven efficacy and will be a valuable resource and powerful tool for clinicians who commonly treat TTM, OCD and related disorders.
Contents
Introductory Information for Therapists and Assessment
Chapter 1: Session 1: Trichotillomania (TTM) Education, Therapy Overview, Expectations, and Assessment of Pulling Triggers
Chapter 2: Session 2: Habit Reversal Training and Trigger Reduction Strategies
Chapter 3: Session 3: Increasing Motivation for Treatment Through Values
Chapter 4: Session 4: Can Pulling-Related Inner Experiences Be Controlled?
Chapter 5: Session 5: Acceptance of Pulling-Related Inner Experiences
Chapter 6: Sessions 6 and 7: Defusion from Your Inner Experiences: You Are Not Your Urges to Pull
Chapter 7: Session 8: Practicing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Chapter 8: Session 9: Practicing ACT and Review of Treatment
Chapter 9: Session 10: Review and Relapse Prevention
Chapter 10: Modifications for Working with Adolescents
Appendix A: Assessment Measures
Appendix B: Client Forms, Graphs, and Worksheets
Appendix C: Caregiver Handouts
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