PAGE CONTENTS
(1) What are Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) Disorders?
(2) Authoritative online information
(3) Authoritative online information about specific BFRB disorders
(4) Book
(5) For professionals
(6) Medications
(1) What are Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) Disorders?
Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) Disorders involve feeling compelled to engage in a repetitive behavior focused on some area of the body, leading to damaging ones appearance or causing physical injury. BFRB Disorders include: hair pulling, nibbling, or cutting (aka Trichotillomania); skin picking or nibbling (Excoriation Disorder); nail picking or biting; or biting of the cheeks, lips, or tongue.
(2) Authoritative online information
The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
(3) Authoritative online information about specific BFRB disorders
Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling Disorder)
(4) Book
This is the only book on the market that describes an evidence-based comprehensive behavioral approach that is applicable to all of the BFRB disorders. Click here for more information about this book.
Mansueto, C. S., Vavrichek, S. M., & Golomb, R. G. (2020). Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking. New Harbinger. [Amazon]
(5) For professionals
The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: Expert Consensus Treatment Guidelines for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, and Related Disorders [PDF].
Grant, J., Stein, D., Woods, D., & Keuthen, N. J. (2011). Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Other BFRBs. [Amazon]
Franklin, M. E., & Tolin, D. F. (2007). Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems (Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders). [Amazon]
A Comprehensive Model for Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania [PDF]
Application of the ComB Model to the Treatment of Compulsive Skin Picking with Fred Penzel, PhD (2017): Webinar
Roberts, S., O’Connor, K., & Bélanger, C. (2013). Emotion regulation and other psychological models for body-focused repetitive behaviors. Clinical Psychology Review, 33(6), 745-762. download archived copy
Sarah H, M., Hana F, Z., Hilary E, D., & Martin E, F. (2013). Habit reversal training in trichotillomania: guide for the clinician. Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 13(9), 1069-1077. download archived copy
Bloch, M. H., Landeros-Weisenberger, A., Dombrowski, P., Kelmendi, B., Wegner, R., Nudel, J., … & Coric, V. (2007). Systematic review: Pharmacological and behavioral treatment for trichotillomania. Biological Psychiatry, 62(8), 839–846.
Mansueto, C. S., Golomb, R. G., Thomas, A. M., & Stemberger, R. M. T. (1999). A comprehensive model for behavioral treatment of trichotillomania. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 6(1), 23–43.
DVD / CD Training Program (CE)
Decoupling; Decoupling: a new method for reducing nail biting and hair pulling (trichotillomania)
Additional articles
Franklin, M. E., Zagrabbe, K., & Benavides, K. L. (2011). Trichotillomania and its treatment: a review and recommendations. Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 11(8), 1165–1174. https://doi.org/10.1586/ern.11.93
Grant, J. E., & Chamberlain, S. R. (2021). Trichotillomania and Skin-Picking Disorder: An Update. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 19(4), 405–412. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20210013