Idiographic Network Guided Treatment for Trichotillomania
The USU ACT lab is seeking participants for a study exploring a personalized treatment method that adapts to your individual behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns to address and manage your trichotillomania.
Our approach goes beyond one-size-fits-all solutions, using advanced techniques to create a therapy plan that is uniquely yours. Your involvement will help us advance the understanding and treatment of trichotillomania. Participants will receive compensation for their time and contribution to this research.
Because the intervention you will receive is a part of a study, your therapy will be entirely free of charge.
Procedures:
Eligibility requirements
If you're eligible based on the initial screening, you'll be invited to complete an intake interview. For further information, please contact Mercedes Woolley at [email protected].
This study is USU IRB # 14372 and the principal investigator is Dr. Michael Twohig ([email protected]).
Our approach goes beyond one-size-fits-all solutions, using advanced techniques to create a therapy plan that is uniquely yours. Your involvement will help us advance the understanding and treatment of trichotillomania. Participants will receive compensation for their time and contribution to this research.
Because the intervention you will receive is a part of a study, your therapy will be entirely free of charge.
Procedures:
- Participants will engage in a 30-day period of data collection through Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), followed by a series of personalized therapy sessions developed by a graduate-student therapist in training and supervised by a licensed psychologist.
- Treatment will evolve based on ongoing EMA surveys, ensuring the most precise and effective therapeutic interventions.
Eligibility requirements
- Adults age 18+
- Living in Utah
- Seeking treatment for trichotillomania
- Willing to complete 30 days of daily assessments before beginning treatment
- Willing to continue daily brief assessments on your smart phone over the course of therapy
- Have 24-hour access to a smart phone
- Have not recently changed psychiatric mediations (past 30 days) or planning to change psychiatric mediation, if applicable.
- If applicable, willing to stop or pause any other form of therapy you may be receiving for trichotillomania.
If you're eligible based on the initial screening, you'll be invited to complete an intake interview. For further information, please contact Mercedes Woolley at [email protected].
This study is USU IRB # 14372 and the principal investigator is Dr. Michael Twohig ([email protected]).
