Emerging conceptualizations of major emotional disorders emphasize their commonalities
rather than their differences, including considerable overlap in disorder phenomenology, a …

Trichotillomania (TTM), or chronic hair pulling, is associated with significant levels of distress
and impairment. While research is in its infancy, more data are accumulating regarding the …

Women of color theorists have suggested that the double minority status of gender and
ethnicity places African American women at higher risk for anxiety. However, little …

Summary Obsessive‐Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRDs) can cause considerable
distress, disability, and impairment in social, occupational, and general daily functioning …

Like other clinical phenomena, repetitive hair pulling in African-Americans has attracted little
systematic investigation. Slightly over 200 participants were recruited from a historically …

Background Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), such as trichotillomania and skin
picking disorder, are psychiatric disorders characterized by repetitive grooming that result in …

This chapter discusses the cross-cultural understanding of the obsessive compulsive and
spectrum disorders. Epidemiological studies suggest a reasonably consistent prevalence of …

Health education and research has historically relied on partnerships between institutions
that focus on prescribing interventions rather than working with communities to identify and …

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a little understood disorder that has been underresearched in the
African American community. Furthermore, the incorporation of cultural factors into TTM …

Trichotillomania (TTM) involves the chronic pulling out of hair to the point of hair loss or
thinning, which continues despite repeated attempts to stop. Behavior therapy is a promising …