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A Preliminary Investigation Of Acceptance And Commitment Therapy As A Treatment For Chronic Skin Picking, M. P. Twohig, S. C. Hayes, Akihiko Masuda
A Preliminary Investigation Of Acceptance And Commitment Therapy As A Treatment For Chronic Skin Picking, M. P. Twohig, S. C. Hayes, Akihiko Masuda
Psychology Faculty Publications
The effectiveness of a deliberately limited version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic skin picking was evaluated in a pair of multiple baseline across participants designs. Self monitoring of skin picking showed that four of the five participants reached near zero levels of picking by post-treatment, but these gains were not fully maintained for three of the four participants at follow-up. The findings of the self-reported skin picking were generally corroborated by ratings of photographs of the damaged areas and by ratings on a validated measure of skin picking severity. All participants rated the intervention as socially acceptable, and …
Increasing Willingness To Experience Obsessions: Acceptance And Commitment Therapy As A Treatment For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, M. P. Twohig, S. C. Hayes, Akihiko Masuda
Increasing Willingness To Experience Obsessions: Acceptance And Commitment Therapy As A Treatment For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, M. P. Twohig, S. C. Hayes, Akihiko Masuda
Psychology Faculty Publications
The effectiveness of a deliberately limited version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic skin picking was evaluated in a pair of multiple baseline across participants designs. Self monitoring of skin picking showed that four of the five participants reached near zero levels of picking by post-treatment, but these gains were not fully maintained for three of the four participants at follow-up. The findings of the self-reported skin picking were generally corroborated by ratings of photographs of the damaged areas and by ratings on a validated measure of skin picking severity. All participants rated the intervention as socially acceptable, and …