Addictive Behaviors: Excoriation and Trichotillomania Disorders
Addictive Behaviors: Excoriation and Trichotillomania Disorders is organized by E Care Behavioral Health Institute.
Overview:
This interactive webinar will focus on two addictives (BFRBs) body-focused repetitive behaviors; one being Excoriation Disorder (compulsive skin-picking) and the other Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder). This course will examine the difficulties related to treating these two BFRBs as they have high relapse rates, rising prevalence, and generate significant distress for those struggling to alleviate the need to reduce or eliminate the repetitive behaviors. This course will examine each disorder’s diagnostic criteria, explore coexisting mental health disorders, and identify the most updated treatment options and considerations.
Objectives:
• Provide the diagnostic criteria for both Excoriation and Trichotillomania Disorders.
• Discuss how both BFRBs have evolved in the DSM prior to and after 2013.
• Describe and identify some of the key identifying behaviors of each disorder and how not to miss them as a provider.
• Suggest treatment options and explore the modern recovery tools useful in practice.
• Identify the barriers of treatment that exist and discuss how the rates of relapse.
• Provide perspective from a client/patient’s perspective in regards to the level of distress and impairment that each disorder generates and maintains.