Clinical Characteristics and Temporal Properties of Individual Tics in Persistent Tic Disorder

Habit Reversal Training (HRT) is a multicomponent treatment package developed to treat a repetitive behaviors. HRT includes (1) increasing awareness of discrete occurrences of tics and associated premonitory urges (PMUs; i.e., awareness training), (2) teaching the patient to suppress tics by engaging in behaviors that are physically incompatible with target tics (i.e., competing response \[CR\] training), and (3) prompting and reinforcing between-session patient engagement with therapeutic techniques and homework (i.e., providing social support).