PAGE CONTENTS
(1) Authoritative online information
(2) An online therapy program
(3) Books
(4) Research
(5) Assessment measures
(1) Authoritative online information
The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: Skin-Picking Disorder
Web MD - Skin Picking Disorder
Stop Picking Coach - Annette Pasternak, PhD
(2) An online therapy program
Stop Picking.com: This is an evidence-based online interactive self-help program that costs about $30 a month.
(3) Books
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]
Pasternak, A. (2014). Skin Picking: The Freedom to Finally Stop. [Amazon]
Pasternak, A. (2017). The freedom companion: For stopping skin picking. [Amazon]
Pasternak, A. (2017). Stop nail biting with the freedom companion. [Amazon]
(4) Research
Treating Skin Picking with Acceptance-Enhanced Behavior Therapy
Capriotti, M. R., Laura J. Ely, Ivar Snorrason, Douglas W. Woods. (2015). Acceptance-Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder in Adults: A Clinical Case Series, In Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 230-239, ISSN 1077-7229, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2014.01.008. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077722914000108) Gelinas, B. L., Michelle M. Gagnon. (2013). Pharmacological and psychological treatments of pathological skin-picking: A preliminary meta-analysis, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 167-175, ISSN 2211-3649, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2013.02.003. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211364913000110) Lochner, C., Roos, A., & Stein, D. J. (2017). Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder: a systematic review of treatment options. Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, 13: 1867–1872. [PubMed Full Text]
Schuck, K., Ger P.J. Keijsers, Mike Rinck. (2011). The effects of brief cognitive-behaviour therapy for pathological skin picking: A randomized comparison to wait-list control, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 11-17, ISSN 0005-7967, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2010.09.005. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796710001889)
Selles, R. R., Joseph F. McGuire, Brent J. Small, Eric A. Storch, A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychiatric treatments for excoriation (skin-picking) disorder, General Hospital Psychiatry, Volume 41, July–August 2016, Pages 29-37, ISSN 0163-8343, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2016.04.001. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163834316300330)
Torales, J. (2016). Cognitive behavioral therapy for excoriation (skin picking) disorder. [PDF]
http://tpcjournal.nbcc.org/excoriation-disorder-assessment-diagnosis-and-treatment
(5) Assessment measures
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for Neurotic Excoriation
The Milwaukee Inventory for the Dimensions of Adult Skin Picking