The impact of emotions on body-Focused repetitive behaviors: Evidence from a non-treatment-seeking sample

The style of planning action (STOP) questionnaire in OCD spectrum disorders

“…The tic/habit is most likely to appear when the person is overpreparing for an action involving a group of tic-affected muscles directly or indirectly associated with the goal-directed action (O'Connor, Brisebois, Brault, Robillard, & Loiselle, 2003) and such situations and activities associated with tic onset tend to be evaluated as dissatisfying and tension producing (Lavoie, Leclerc, & O'Connor, 2013) and also involve a degree of overactivity (trying to do too much at once; Roberts, O'Connor, Aardema, & Bélanger, 2015).…”

Cognitive psychophysiological treatment of bodily‐focused repetitive behaviors in adults: An open trial

“…Also, our sample of participants with BFRB did not score particularly high on obsessionality (as measured by PI-R) and the CoPs program does not seem to affect levels of obsessionality. Perfectionism in personal standards and organizational rigidity may be more important attributes in indirectly triggering BFRBs by creating frustration (Roberts et al, 2015). The daily diary revealed that the decrease in frequency of habits was largely linear over stages of the program.…”

“…The cognitive psychophysiological (CoPs) treatment model builds on previous behavioral approaches, but rather than addressing the BFRB in isolation, the CoPs approach targets meta-cognition, impulsivity, perfectionism, and style of planning, which produces tension and negative emotion eliciting or underlying BFRB. Situations at high risk of onset of BRFBs involve activities and contexts in which the person feels judged, constrained, frustrated, or dissatisfied, while situations at low risk reveal existing strengths to transfer to high risk situations to prevent onset rather than the need to learn new behaviors (Roberts, O'Connor, Aardema, & Bélanger, 2015). The CoPs has also proved effective in treating tic disorder (O'Connor, Lavoie, Blanchet, & St-Pierre-Delorme, 2016).…”

The Beliefs in Trichotillomania Scale (BiTS): Factor analyses and preliminary validation

“…Although negative self‐beliefs contributed only a small percentage of unique variance, it is noteworthy that one of the first investigations into the role of emotion regulation in TTM found that difficulties with regulating emotions of specific relevance to hair pulling (e.g., boredom, frustration) accounted for less than 1% of the variance in TTM severity (Shusterman et al ., ). This finding nevertheless prompted important research into the role of emotion dysregulation in TTM and has since contributed to the development of effective treatments (e.g., DBT‐enhanced BT; Keuthen et al ., ) and identification of potential behaviour change mechanisms (Roberts et al ., , ).…”

“…Arguably, there is currently no equivalent, comprehensive cognitive‐behavioural model of TTM, as the role of cognitions and beliefs in eliciting and maintaining hair pulling episodes has been the subject of limited investigation (Rehm et al ., ). Candidate beliefs proposed for incorporating into comprehensive cognitive‐behavioural models of TTM have included perfectionism, self‐control and self‐efficacy, permission‐giving cognitions, and negative self‐evaluations (Franklin & Tolin, ; Gluhoski, ; Moulding, Mancuso, Rehm, & Nedeljkovic, ; Norberg, Wetterneck, Woods, & Conelea, ; Pélissier & O'Connor, ; Roberts, O'Connor, Aardema, & Bélanger, ).…”