5 tips for patients
- Think about what to do, not what not to do
- Involve others: explain, get advice, allow prompts
- Use the hand tally counter and log your results
- Ensure you can give habit reversal priority – it takes only 4 weeks
- Understand, create and use your personal new behaviour prescription
5 tips for practitioners
- Before starting, clarify and encourage positive motivation
- Ensure habit reversal is combined with optimal topical treatment
- Prompt the patient to click when scratching occurs in clinic
- Demonstrate the procedure & watch it being performed
- As scratching frequency falls, focus habit reversal tactics on danger times
What tips do you have? Please comment below!
Published 04/06/2012
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