Behavior therapy for tics in children: acute and long-term effects on psychiatric and psychosocial functioning.

ABSTRACT: Children (n = 126) ages 9 to 17 years with chronic tic or Tourette disorder were randomly assigned to receive either behavior therapy or a control treatment over 10 weeks. This study examined acute effects of behavior therapy on secondary psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning and long-term effects on these measures for behavior therapy responders only. Baseline and end point assessments conducted by a masked independent evaluator assessed several secondary psychiatric symptoms and measures of psychosocial functioning. Responders to behavior therapy at the end of the acute phase were reassessed at 3-month and 6-month follow-up. Children in the behavior therapy and control conditions did not differentially improve on secondary psychiatric or psychosocial outcome measures at the e

SUBMITTER: Woods DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4007273 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature