Therapy Programme for Compulsive Shopping Disorder

The counselling and treatment concept developed at the Anton Proksch Institute for shopping addicts is mainly based on a behavioural therapeutic approach and comprises:

• Individual analysis of pathological shopping behaviour
• Identification of influencing and/or triggering factors
• Short-term and long-term consequences
• Patient’s resources and learning of alternative behaviour patterns
• Identification and treatment of associated mental disorders including treatment with medication