Books about Hair Pulling

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A Parent Guide to Hair Pulling Disorder

"A Parent Guide to Hair Pulling Disorder: Effective Parenting Strategies for Children with Trichotillomania" is a guide for parents of children with compulsive hair pulling, or trichotillomania, that explains the nature and causes of the problem and methods for treatment and obtaining help. The book also addresses the particular challenges facing parents in dealing with this little known and misunderstood behavior, which is common among children and adolescents. More ...
Help for Hair Pullers: Understanding and Coping with Trichotillomania

If you suffer from trichotillomania, this book is written for you, your family and loved ones, and the professionals who you might seek out to help you overcome your condition. Written by one of the leading experts in the field, the book reviews the latest medications and treatment options and offers simple and effective cognitive-behavioral techniques for controlling hair-pulling. More ...
The Hair Pulling "Habit" and You: How to Solve the Trichotillomania Puzzle

This book shows young people how to break their hair pulling habit by identifying trigger situations, developing resistance strategies, charting progress, modifying environments, motivating themselves, and staying with the program. Advice for therapists and parents, too. More ...
The Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania, one of the family of obsessive-compulsive disorders, may afflict as many as 6 to 8 million people in the United States. Now, a leading authority on obsessive-compulsive disorders, Dr. Fred Penzel, has written the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to this syndrome available, filled with reassuring advice for patients and their families. More ...
Trichotillomania: An ACT-enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Workbook

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat as few effective therapeutic options exist. Behavior therapy has the greatest empirical support, but the number of mental health providers familiar with TTM and its treatment is quite small. This manual was written as a tool for therapists to become familiar with an effective treatment for TTM. More ...
How to Stop Pulling Out Your Hair!

Written by an 'ex' hair puller after much research into why people pull their hair out and how Trichotillomania can be cured, this is a collection of powerful help based on real success stories in curing Trichotillomania. These tools are immediately useable, and effective, and can be put to work immediately to help suffers stop pulling their hair and eyelashes out. More ...
Treating Trichotillomania

There is still scant clinical information on trichotillomania. This book fills the need for a full-length cognitive-behavioral treatment manual. The authors share their considerable expertise in treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (not only hair-pulling but skin-picking and nail-biting as well) in an accessible, clinically valid reference. This is the first comprehensive, clinical, and empirically-based volume to address these disorders. More ...
Trichotillomania Disorder Cure: How To Overcome Hair Pulling For Life

Read the latest research and techniques that have worked for others in the past in helping you stop within weeks. Use these detailed methods that are easy to follow and carry out. The book has been written and shows methods that really work for people of all ages - children, teenagers and adults. More ...