At BFRB REACH, we believe that we don’t yet know the most effective ways to support people to manage BFRBs, and that there is unlikely to be a one-size-fits-all solution. Our research groups and projects are exploring the psychological and physiological factors that underlie the experience of living with overwhelming urges to pick, pull and bite, and use this as a basis to develop and test new interventions. This research will enable us to suggest interventions (including self-help, educational, community-based and professionally delivered options) for which there is good evidence of long-lasting benefit. Importantly, all research conducted or promoted by BFRB REACH is grounded in lived experience and the principle of ‘nothing for us without us’.
Links to papers and academic talks
- The mediating role of shame in the relationship between adolescent hairpulling and co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptomology by Talia F. Mayerson, Clare Mackay, Polly Waite
- Trichotillomania: a perspective synthesised from neuroscience and lived experience by Clare Mackay
Specific study adverts
More to come…
Research Alternative Format
This is a work in progress…trying to work out what format this page should have.