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From vocal tics to biting nails, we've got you covered in this week's episode on the use of habit reversal.\xa0 Rob shares what might be the ultimate resource guide to this nifty treatment package while Diana and Jackie describe the long, hard road behavior analysis took to make habit reversal an accepted intervention for Tourette disorder.\xa0 That means, we're talking randomized controlled trials, people!\xa0 All that and Rob tries to convince author Dr. Doug Woods to be his new best friend.\xa0 Seriously, Dr. Woods, please give him a call...he won't shut up about your talk!

Articles discussed this episode:

Miltenberger, R.G., Fuqua, R.W, & Woods, D.W.\xa0 (1998).\xa0 Applying behavior analysis to clinical problems: Review and analysis of habit reversal.\xa0\xa0Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 31, 447-469.\xa0 doi: 10.1901/jaba.1998.31-447

Woods, D.W., Twohig, M.P., Flessner, C.A., & Roloff, T.J.\xa0 (2003).\xa0 Treatment of vocal tics in children with Tourette syndrome:\xa0 Investigating the efficacy of habit reversal.\xa0\xa0Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 36, 109-112.\xa0 doi: 10.1901/jaba.2003.36-109

Himle, M.B., Woods, D.W., Piacentini, J.C., Walkup, J.T.\xa0 (2006).\xa0 Brief review of habit reversal training for Tourette syndrome.\xa0\xa0Journal of Child Neurology, 21, 719-725.\xa0 doi: 10.2310/7010.2006.00158

Piacentini, J., Woods, D.W., Scahill, L., Wilhelm, S., Peterson, A.L., Chang, S., Ginsburg, G.S., Deckersbach, T., Dziura, J., Levi-Pearl, S., & Walkup, J.T.\xa0 (2010).\xa0 Behavior Therapy for Children with Tourette Disorder: A randomized controlled trial.\xa0\xa0Journal of the American Medical Association, 303, 1929-1937.\xa0 doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.607

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