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Tics & Tourette

Tics are brief, repeated movements or sounds that are hard to hold back; they usually appear in childhood and often lessen during adolescence. Tourette syndrome combines several motor tics and at least one vocal tic, present for more than a year. The manual in this topic, written for professionals, presents the recommended behavioural interventions, such as habit reversal training.

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Tics and Tourette syndrome: a therapist's manual

A ten-session protocol, session by session, for persistent tics and Tourette syndrome in children, adolescents and adults, with parents involved for minors. First the decision to treat or to wait, because the course is often favourable in adolescence. Then the behavioural intervention recommended as first-line treatment — awareness training, the competing response, social support, work on the context of the tics, relaxation as an adjunct — and exposure with response prevention as an alternative. School life and teasing, the place of medication, tic-like movements of functional origin, not to be confused with tics, nine worksheets and full references.

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