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The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder

Ali Mert Besenek, Cicek Hocaoglu.

Abstract
Skin picking disorder (SPD) has frequently been reported to start before the age of 10; but “very-early onset” type was not defined before in the literature. Also research on the treatment of SPD in childhood is limited. We presented a “very-early onset” SPD case whose symptoms have started on the age of 4 and escalated with her comorbid oppositional defiant disorder diagnosis. Patient was successfully treated with low dose (0.25 mg/day) risperidone and proper psychoeducational interventions. Identifying SPD in very early childhood is hard cause; criterion of SPD might not capture all the specific features which very young children manifest and clinicians might overlook their complaints. Efficacy of risperidone might reflect a shared psychopathological etiology between impulse control and SPD, and lead future research on treatment of SPD with atypical anti-psychotics.

Key words: Skin Picking Disorder, Very-Early Onset, Diagnosis, Treatment


 
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AMB, Hocaoglu C. The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. PBS. 2021; 11(2): 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153


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AMB, Hocaoglu C. The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. https://www.pbsciences.org/?mno=59180 [Access: December 04, 2023]. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153


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AMB, Hocaoglu C. The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. PBS. 2021; 11(2): 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



Vancouver/ICMJE Style

AMB, Hocaoglu C. The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. PBS. (2021), [cited December 04, 2023]; 11(2): 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



Harvard Style

, A. M. B. & Hocaoglu, . C. (2021) The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. PBS, 11 (2), 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



Turabian Style

, Ali Mert Besenek, and Cicek Hocaoglu. 2021. The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 11 (2), 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



Chicago Style

, Ali Mert Besenek, and Cicek Hocaoglu. "The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder." Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 11 (2021), 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style

, Ali Mert Besenek, and Cicek Hocaoglu. "The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder." Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 11.2 (2021), 148-150. Print. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153



APA (American Psychological Association) Style

, A. M. B. & Hocaoglu, . C. (2021) The Efficacy of Risperidone on the Treatment of Very-Early Onset Skin Picking Disorder. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 11 (2), 148-150. doi:10.5455/PBS.20210225062153