Case study: Exposure and response prevention for an adolescent with Tourette's syndrome and OCD.
Using recently refined diagnostic criteria, the authors hypothesized that the frequent touching of others by a 16-year-old male adolescent with Tourette's syndrome was a compulsion and not a tic. Consistent with the study's hypothesis, the authors applied exposure and response prevention, a procedure empirically supported for treatment of compulsions but not for tics, to the touching. Results showed a significant decrease in touching attempts, overt anxiety, and subjective anxiety across time.
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Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, NE.
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Spellman
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Friman
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D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy*; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome