Treatment
Treating patients with excoriation starts with a series of evaluations (Arnold et al., 2001). The evaluations are of two types: physical and psychological (Grant et al., 2016). First, the clinician will have the patient evaluated for any underlying skin-related medical problems like lesions, scabies, etc. Then the patient is evaluated and treated for psychological conditions. When knowing about certain comorbid disorders, clinicians can better treat their patients. Some regimens may work better for patients who have certain co-occurring disorders (Arnold et al., 2001). For example, people who also suffer with BDD tend to respond better to cognitive-behavioral therapy (Ravindran, Silva, Ravindran, Richter, & Rector, 2009). These evaluations are absolutely crucial to treating patients because they are able to detect conditions that could contribute to excoriation. Another reason for this process is so that clinicians can double check that their diagnosis is not incorrect (Grant et al., 2016).
Excoriation is usually treated through cognitive-behavioral therapy (Jagger & Sterner, 2016) and …show more content…
When trying to find specific information about excoriation, I was often met with general finding about OC-related disorders (Burke et al., 2016). This was a disadvantage to my research because OC-related disorders comprise quite a varied category. From my view, the construct was not clear cut. For example, the DSM–5 (2013) states that a patient cannot be diagnosed with SPD if the symptoms are better explained by another mental disorder,yet whether the skin picking is comorbid or a byproduct of another disorder is difficult to sort through and understand. It would have been easier if there were more studies and specific distinctions about patients with SPD. Overall, the lack of information on excoriation leaves an immense area of ambiguity to the
Treating patients with excoriation starts with a series of evaluations (Arnold et al., 2001). The evaluations are of two types: physical and psychological (Grant et al., 2016). First, the clinician will have the patient evaluated for any underlying skin-related medical problems like lesions, scabies, etc. Then the patient is evaluated and treated for psychological conditions. When knowing about certain comorbid disorders, clinicians can better treat their patients. Some regimens may work better for patients who have certain co-occurring disorders (Arnold et al., 2001). For example, people who also suffer with BDD tend to respond better to cognitive-behavioral therapy (Ravindran, Silva, Ravindran, Richter, & Rector, 2009). These evaluations are absolutely crucial to treating patients because they are able to detect conditions that could contribute to excoriation. Another reason for this process is so that clinicians can double check that their diagnosis is not incorrect (Grant et al., 2016).
Excoriation is usually treated through cognitive-behavioral therapy (Jagger & Sterner, 2016) and …show more content…
When trying to find specific information about excoriation, I was often met with general finding about OC-related disorders (Burke et al., 2016). This was a disadvantage to my research because OC-related disorders comprise quite a varied category. From my view, the construct was not clear cut. For example, the DSM–5 (2013) states that a patient cannot be diagnosed with SPD if the symptoms are better explained by another mental disorder,yet whether the skin picking is comorbid or a byproduct of another disorder is difficult to sort through and understand. It would have been easier if there were more studies and specific distinctions about patients with SPD. Overall, the lack of information on excoriation leaves an immense area of ambiguity to the