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Therapeutic interventions which reduce shame and enhance your ability to accept distressing internal experiences may be important in clinical approaches to adolescent hairpulling.
Very pleased to share our latest paper - a systematic review of psychological therapies for primary Generalised Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents - which has recently been published in JCPP Advances. It’s available here doi.org/10.1002/jcv2..., or keep reading for the key messages! (1/6)
These results suggest that negative self-evaluation plays a crucial role in maintaining hairpulling and co-occurring symptoms.
Lottie Shipp
We also found high levels of trance-pulling and post-pulling rituals.
Despite adolescence being a critical age for the emergence of hair-pulling disorder (trichotillomania) and co-occurring symptoms, there are huge gaps in our understanding of the features of hair-pulling, what causes and keeps it going.
Shame partly explained the relationship between hairpulling severity and depression symptoms and fully explained the relationship between hairpulling severity and anxiety symptoms.
We found that hairpulling severity was significantly associated with experiences of shame, and that shame in turn significantly predicted both depression and anxiety symptoms.
This study was with a community sample of adolescents with clinical levels of hair-pulling severity.
New paper with @claremackay.bsky.social led by MSc student Talia Mayerson on the role of shame in the adolescent hairpulling and co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptomology: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/....
Summary below:
Background Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is common in children and adolescents, and if not successfully treated, has negative consequences for their current and subsequent mental health. Whilst...
