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Understanding Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

By Stacy Nakell Uncategorized
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Course Purpose: to offer some insight into what leads people to pick and pull, building self-compassion

1. Name common precipitating factors for hair-pulling and skin-picking
2. List common daily triggers of body-focused behaviors
3. Define the field of Psychodermatology
4. Build a compassionate view of why people engage in these behaviors
5. Get a sense of a ‘going to the roots’ approach to unwanted behaviors.

Course Content

Introduction

Factors that contribute to body-focused repetitive behaviors
In these lessons I describe common precipitating factors for the development of body-focused repetitive behaviors and the factors that trigger engagement in BFRB in daily life.

Pscyhodermatology
This lesson will introduce you to an important medical field and invite you to consider the connection between mind, body, skin, and psyche. Dermatologists were the first to identify and name both trichotillomania (hair-pulling) and dermatillomania (skin-picking), nearly a century before they were identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Dermatologists and psychiatrists were each coming to see that in cases involving the skin, there was a clear and circular connection between psychosocial stressors and the intensity of skin symptoms. Psychodermatology clinics consist of a dermatologist, a psychiatrist, and a therapist and have been shown to be very effective.

Building self-compassion
Why self-compassion? Self-compassion is the antidote to shame 3 components of self compassion: self-kindness, mindfulness, universality Keys to self-compassion for BFRBs

Connection between perfectionism and BFRBs
What is perfectionism? What feelings may be shut down in order to keep a 'perfect' demeanor? Is there any benefit to being less than perfect?

Why go to the roots?
Introduction to cognitive-behavioral therapy Introduction to integrative psychodynamic therapy What is the benefit of going to the roots vs. treating the symptoms?

Conclusion
A message of hope and resilience as brains retain plasticity until adulthood How to follow up for more support and treatment. References

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