Conquer Trichotillomania: A Practical Guide To Taking Control, Regain Your Self-Esteem


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Are you tired of struggling with trichotillomania and seeking a practical and empowering solution to regain control over your life? Look no further! The “Stop Hair-Pulling Workbook” is a comprehensive workbook designed to guide you on a transformative journey towards managing trichotillomania and reclaiming your self-esteem. This workbook is built on three essential pillars that will pave your path to success: belief & control, awareness & interventions, and the anti-pulling lifestyle. By focusing on these key aspects, you will develop an analytical and problem-solving mindset, empowering you to create a personalized plan tailored to your unique needs. In the “Stop Hair-Pulling Workbook”, you will discover a wealth of tools and strategies to help you cope with the challenges of trichotillomania. By cultivating a deep understanding of your condition, you will gain the confidence to face it head-on. The workbook’s thought-provoking exercises and insightful prompts will encourage self-reflection, allowing you to uncover the underlying triggers and emotions behind your hair-pulling tendencies. Through practical exercises and step-by-step guidance, you will learn to: Strengthen your belief in your ability to overcome trichotillomania and regain control of your actions. Heighten your awareness of the thoughts, emotions, and situations that trigger your hair-pulling urges. Implement effective interventions and coping mechanisms to prevent and manage hair-pulling episodes. Embrace an anti-pulling lifestyle that nurtures positive habits and fosters emotional well-being. The “Stop Hair-Pulling Workbook” is more than just a workbook; it is a supportive companion on your journey to self-discovery and healing. Each chapter offers valuable insights, reflective questions, and evidence-based practices to inspire and guide you along the way. Whether you have recently been diagnosed with trichotillomania or have been battling it for years, this workbook will be your trusted resource to create lasting change. Break free from the constraints of trichotillomania, transform your perspective, and cultivate the self-esteem you deserve. This book is not meant as an endpoint, but rather as a starting point where you can fight trichotillomania heads-on with your skills and mindset. Even though trichotillomania is chronic, you can learn to manage your condition. Just like I did. Take the first step towards empowerment today with the “Stop Hair-Pulling Workbook”. Your path to a fulfilling life free from trichotillomania starts here. BONUS: This trichotillomania book also contains trichotillomania planners, idea lists, and other useful handouts to make your experience even smoother. P.S. Are you a parent? You can also use this workbook to go through these steps together with your child.




A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD


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If you're a woman with an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you've probably known that you're different all your life. As women, we learn which types of behavior, thought, studying, and working are favored, approved and tolerated, and frowned upon. Such interests are expressed in countless ways, from the media and books to our first-grade classroom to our classmates and parents. Throughout a lifetime, people with ADHD discover through various channels that the way they think, work, speak, communicate, and behave is not in line with the world's preferred approach. They know, in short, that the difference is evil. And since those women know they're different, they're told that they're wrong. It is the time to embrace yourself the way you are and to understand the way how your brain works and for others to understand the condition of their beloved ladies fighting with ADHD and help them in managing stuff and in growing. In this guide, you will learn: - How to manage time? - How to break different barriers and grow in various phases of life? - How to get success in the workplace? - How to organize your home family and social life - How to help your beloved lady in dealing with ADHD? This workbook will help guide you if you're ready to develop a strong, brave, and comfortable sense of self, accept your unique brain-based differences, and build your strengths.




Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors


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“The definitive guide for those who pick or pull.” —Reid Wilson, PhD, author Stopping the Noise in Your Head A comprehensive treatment plan grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you overcome body-focused repetitive behaviors for good! If you have body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB) such as hair pulling (trichotillomania) or skin picking (dermatillomania), you may feel embarrassed about seeking help. But there are proven-effective strategies you can use to overcome these behaviors and improve your overall quality of life—this book will show you how. In this evidence-based resource, three renowned experts and clinicians offer powerful CBT skills to help you move past BFRB. You’ll learn why you engage in these behaviors, and how to identify your own sensory “triggers”—places, things, or experiences that cause your behavior to become worse. Finally, you’ll learn strategies to use when faced with these triggers, and develop your own customized “plan of action” for moving beyond BFRB for good. With time, practice, and solid skills for managing stress, anxiety, urges, and other triggers, this book will help you break free from BFRB and feel more in control of your life.




Trichotillomania


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Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that has long been considered difficult to treat as few effective therapeutic options exist. The empirically-supported treatment approach described in this innovative guide blends traditional behavior therapy elements of habit reversal training and stimulus control techniques with the more contemporary behavioral elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). With this breakthrough approach, clients learn to be aware of their pulling and warning signals, use self-management strategies for stopping and preventing pulling, stop fighting against their pulling-related urges and thoughts, and work toward increasing their quality of life.




Treating Trichotillomania


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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.




Overcoming Harm OCD


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Don’t let your thoughts and fears define you. In Overcoming Harm OCD, psychotherapist Jon Hershfield offers powerful cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness tools to help you break free from the pain and self-doubt caused by harm OCD. Do you suffer from violent, unwanted thoughts and a crippling fear of harming others? Are you afraid to seek treatment for fear of being judged? If so, you may have harm OCD—an anxiety disorder associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). First and foremost, you need to know that these thoughts do not define you as a human being. But they can cause a lot of real emotional pain. So, how can you overcome harm OCD and start living a better life? Written by an expert in treating harm OCD, this much-needed book offers a direct and comprehensive explanation of what harm OCD is and how to manage it. You’ll learn why you have unwanted thoughts, how to identify mental compulsions, and find an overview of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based treatment approaches that can help you reclaim your life. You’ll also find tips for disclosing violent obsessions, finding adequate professional help, and working with loved ones to address harm OCD systemically. And finally, you’ll learn that your thoughts are just thoughts, and that they don’t make you a bad person. If you have harm OCD, it’s time to move past the stigma and start focusing on solutions. This evidence-based guide will help light the way.




Freeing Your Child from Anxiety


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Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today. Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don’t know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is. In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety. No child is immune from the effects of stress in today’s media-saturated society. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable. By following these simple solutions, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today—and tomorrow. www.broadwaybooks.com From the Trade Paperback edition.




The OCD Workbook


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If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chances are that your persistent obsessive thoughts and time-consuming compulsions keep you from enjoying life to the fullest. But when you are in the habit of avoiding the things you fear, the idea of facing them head-on can feel frightening and overwhelming. This book can help. The OCD Workbook has helped thousands of people with OCD break the bonds of troubling OCD symptoms and regain the hope of a productive life. Endorsed and used in hospitals and clinics the world over, this valuable resource is now fully revised and updated with the latest evidence-based approaches to understanding and managing OCD. It offers day-to-day coping strategies you can start using right away, along with proven-effective self-help techniques that can help you maintain your progress. The book also includes information for family members seeking to understand and support loved ones who suffer from this often baffling and frustrating disorder. Whether you suffer with OCD or a related disorder, such as body dysmorphic disorder or trichotillomania, let this new edition of The OCD Workbook be your guide on the path to recovery. This new edition will help you: use self-assessment tools to identify your symptoms and their severity; create and implement a recovery strategy using cognitive behavioral self-help tools and techniques; learn about the most effective medications and medical treatments; find the right professional help and access needed support for your recovery; and maintain your progress and prevent future relapse. This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit — an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.




The Self in Understanding and Treating Psychological Disorders


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This must-have reference is a unique exploration of how the individual notion of 'self' and related constructs, such as early schemas and attachment styles, impact on psychopathology, psychotherapy processes and treatment outcomes for psychological disorders across DSM-5, such as depression, bipolar and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, anxiety and trauma, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, autism, personality disorders, gender identity disorder, dementia and somatic problems such as chronic fatigue syndrome. It discusses the role of the concept of self in a wide range of existing theoretical and treatment frameworks, and relates these to real-life clinical issues and treatment implications. Emphasizing the importance of integrating an awareness of self constructs into evidence-based conceptual models, it offers alternative practical intervention techniques, suggesting a new way forward in advancing our understanding of psychological disorders and their treatment.




SOS Help for Parents


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A set of teaching/couseling aids for professionals who offer parent education classes, parent counseling, or guidance to parents on child rearing and discipline.