2. OVERVIEW OF TRICHOTILLOMANIA
What is trichotillomania?
Body-focused repetitive behavior
(“What is Trichotillomania,” n.d.)
Automatic vs. Focused pulling
(Grant & Chamberlain, 2016)
Depression (Lewin et al., 2009)
3. AGE AND GENDER CORRELATES OF PULLING IN PEDIATRIC
TRICHOTILLOMANIA
Participants
• 62 children between the ages of 8 and 17
Methods:
• In-person evaluations
• Clinical interview
• Examined clinical correlations
• Automatic and focused subscales
(Panza et al., 2013)
4. HOW DOES TRICHOTILLOMANIA IMPACT INDIVIDUALS?
Trichotillomania makes people feel ashamed,
embarrassed, and humiliated.
(Galazka, 2018)
Parents of children with trichotillomania are also
impacted.
(“Trichotillomania in Children,” n.d.)
5. MY STORY
• 7 years old
• Was playing volleyball with my
cousins
• Came home and felt an eyelash in my eye
• Developed a bad habit
• How I have changed
6. HOW I COMBAT
TRICHOTILLOMANIA
What have I done in the past?
• Monitored my habits through journaling
• Meditation
What are my next steps?
Coloring
Drawing
Habitaware
7. • AOCD. (n.d.). Trichotillomania. AOCD. Retrieved November 1, 2021, from
https://www.aocd.org/?page=Trichotillomania.
• Galazka, K. (2018, March 17). For Compulsive Hair Pullers And Skin Pickers, There Is
Need For More Help. NPR. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/17/588954152/for-compulsive-
hair-pullers-and-skin-pickers-there-is-need-for-more-help.
• Grant, J. E., & Chamberlain, S. R. (2016). Trichotillomania. The American journal of
psychiatry, 173(9), 868–874. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15111432
• Lewin, A. B., Piacentini, J., Flessner, C. A., Woods, D. W., Franklin, M. E., Keuthen, N. J.,
Moore, P., Khanna, M., March, J. S., Stein, D. J., & TLC-SAB (2009). Depression, anxiety,
and functional impairment in children with trichotillomania. Depression and
anxiety, 26(6), 521–527. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.20537
• Lyness, D. A. (Ed.). (2016, March). Trichotillomania . KidsHealth. Retrieved October
31, 2021, from https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/trichotillomania.html.
REFERENCES
8. REFERENCES
• Panza, K. E., Pittenger, C., & Bloch, M. H. (2013). Age and Gender Correlates
of Pulling in Pediatric Trichotillomania. Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(3), 241–249.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2012.12.019
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• What is Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling Disorder)? The TLC Foundation for
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