Dissemination of Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) to Occupational Therapists: A Feasibility Study

"CBIT is a highly structured therapy that typically takes place on a weekly basis. The patient is taught to perform a specific behavior that makes the tic more difficult to do, as soon as the tic or urge appears. This competing response helps to reduce, and in some cases, even eliminate the tic. The functional intervention (FI), is based on the fact that certain situations or reactions to tics can make them worse than they might otherwise be. The goal of FI is to identify these situations and have the patient and family attempt to change them so the tics aren't made worse unnecessarily."