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Self-Monitoring, Competing Response and Response Cost in the Treatment of Trichotillomania: A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Paul Rogers  and
Simon Darnley
Paul Rogers
Affiliation:
Glanrhyd Hospital, Bridgend
Simon Darnley
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London
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Abstract

Self-monitoring, a competing response and response cost were used in the successful treatment of a 49 year old female patient with a 19 year history of trichotillomania. Self-monitoring and a competing response produced significant decreases in hair-pulling, but still continued as the patient found it pleasurable at times of stress. The addition of response cost procedures overcame this.

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Brief Clinical Reports
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 281 - 290
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1997

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