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Blog post 05.04.2024

New ADAA Member Books: Spring 2024

Check out our ADAA members' new books that offer help for the public and support for professionals.

Blog post 02.09.2024

6 Ways to Tackle BFRBs Outside Your Home

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) can often make us feel like we have no control over our behaviors and that we’re at the mercy of an endless cycle. Here are 6 ways you can set yourself up to combat your BRFB outside of your home.

Blog post 01.04.2024

How to Stop Pulling or Picking

Compulsive hair pulling (trichotillomania) and skin picking (excoriation) are Body Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders (BFRBs). If you’re one of the 200+ million people who live with a BFRB, then you know how incredibly difficult these habits are to stop.

Blog post 10.26.2023

Tackling Picking and Pulling from all Angles - the ComB Model for BFRBs

The comprehensive behavioral treatment or the ComB model is a treatment protocol developed by (Mansueto 2019) that tackles the complexity of treating BFRBs. It begins with using a CBT assessment tool, a functional analysis.

Blog post 10.12.2023

Compulsions – They Aren’t Always What They Seem

Whether we hear the term from a client, another provider, or our own classification of someone’s symptoms, “compulsions” tend carry with them some level of assumption – that this might just be OCD.

Personal Story 09.11.2023

Why I Wrote a Children’s Book about Postpartum Depression When I Was 9-Months Pregnant

When I was 9-months pregnant with my second baby, I tried to find a children’s picture book to read with my nearly five-year-old about a family living with the most common condition after childbirth—postpartum depression—and was shocked to find no book like this in 2020. I set out to create a resource for the 1 in 7 women who will experience postpartum depression along with their families.

Blog post 07.19.2023