Body Focused Repetitive Disorder (BFRB)

 Ask the Authors Q & A: The BFRB Recovery Workbook
July 31, 2024
Marla Deibler, PsyD and
Renae M. Reinardy, PsyD and
Join ADAA on July 31st at noon ET for a Live Q & A with Dr. Marla Deibler and Dr Renae Reinardy, authors of The BFRB Recovery Workbook, a self-paced workbook that provides evidence-based tools to examine your BFRB in a new way.
Check out our ADAA members' new books that offer help for the public and support for professionals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
According to the DSM 5, Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) are classified as obsessive–compulsive related disorders. But the question remains, how do we treat BFRBs?
All About Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors - BFRB
July 21, 2022
Marla Deibler, PsyD and
Join ADAA this Thursday for a free brief information and Q & A session to learn "all about '' BFRBs, how they impact those who are living with them, current trends in evidence-based treatment, and resources for support. 

Adults 50+ Peer-Led BFRB (Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors) Virtual Support Group

State
Virtual

We are a peer-led community and support group for people 50 plus with BFRBs offering strength, hope, and community. As we age, we 50+ folks have unique challenges with our BFRBs. We are challenged with new circumstances and needs. In this group, we strengthen our community and each other.

WHERE WE MEET – online on Zoom.

PLEASE NOTE – Audio and video are required to be on for the whole meeting. You can use two devices if you need to (one for audio and one for video), such as a phone and a computer.