Woods D W, Hook S S, Spellman D F, Friman P C
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, NE.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000 Jul;39(7):904-7. doi: 10.1097/00004583-200007000-00020.
Using recently refined diagnostic criteria, the authors hypothesized that the frequent touching of others by a 16-year-old male adolescent with Tourette's syndrome was a compulsion and not a tic. Consistent with the study's hypothesis, the authors applied exposure and response prevention, a procedure empirically supported for treatment of compulsions but not for tics, to the touching. Results showed a significant decrease in touching attempts, overt anxiety, and subjective anxiety across time.
作者使用最近完善的诊断标准，推测一名患有妥瑞氏综合征的16岁男性青少年频繁触摸他人是一种强迫行为而非抽动。与该研究的假设一致，作者对触摸行为采用了暴露与反应阻止疗法，这是一种经实证支持用于治疗强迫行为而非抽动的程序。结果显示，随着时间推移，触摸尝试、明显焦虑和主观焦虑均显著减少。
