Behavioral therapy for tics is a general term for a type of psychotherapy technique that aims to reduce or improve symptoms or maladaptive behaviors in children with tics. Behavioral therapy is highly targeted, easy to administer, short in duration, and quick in effect. It is clear that behavioral therapy plays an integral role in the overall treatment of tic disorders. The treatment of tics in children includes psycho-behavioral therapy and medication, which are the most used treatment modalities at present. Psycho-behavioral treatment focuses on explaining the nature of the disease to the child’s parents and not to be anxious and nervous, so as to remove the reinforcing effect caused by the parents’ nervousness and excessive attention. The child’s tics can be ignored so that the symptoms will gradually diminish and subside. Do not repeatedly remind or scold the child, as this will reinforce the excitability of the cerebral cortex and make the tics more frequent. Behavioral treatment methods such as muscle relaxation therapy and operant handling have good effects on clearing the twitching symptoms. It is important to obtain the cooperation of the child’s parents and the child himself when receiving treatment, and to give guidance to the parents in order to assist in the treatment. The psychological treatment of Tourette’s syndrome is based on the following aspects: 1. The main task of self-control training for the treatment of Tourette’s syndrome is to teach children with Tourette’s syndrome to control their behavior through simple, fixed self-commands. For example, if the child is given a simple question to answer, he or she is asked to command himself or herself to complete the following four actions before answering: stop other activities and remain quiet; read the question; listen to the request and finally speak. This treatment for tics can also be used to control some impulsive behaviors. For example, when crossing the street with a child with Tourette’s syndrome, a series of actions such as stopping, looking, and listening are required before crossing the street. Since in the treatment training for Tourette’s syndrome, the command for the therapeutic actions for Tourette’s syndrome comes from within the child, the child with Tourette’s syndrome’s self-control can be greatly improved once the actions are set in place. The training sequence should be careful in the self-control training, the content of the treatment task should be simple to complicated, the completion time of the treatment task should be short to long, and the self-command should be few to many. 2 Relaxation training for the treatment of tics The use of this treatment method for the treatment of tics in children is a new attempt in recent years, and the results are quite good. Since the body parts of children with tics are always tense for long periods of time, if their muscles can be relaxed, the tics will improve. Relaxation training for tics can be done using general relaxation methods or using biofeedback methods under the guidance of the doctor concerned. The training time should be focused and can be done for several days in a row, from the morning until the evening, during which time the child with tic disorder will be trained as planned, except for meals and rest. When relaxation tic training is performed, 15 minutes of relaxation are given every hour, and the child with tic disorder is given a material reward as soon as he or she meets the relaxation requirements. The remaining 45 minutes can be devoted to games of interest to the child, but the games must end as soon as the relaxation time is reached.3 Supportive therapy is not effective on its own, but is used in combination with other tic disorder treatments to help children with tics to relieve emotional depression after frustration and low self-esteem due to learning difficulties. During implementation, parents and teachers should encourage children with tics, help them build confidence, and reward them once their condition improves. Experts point out that parents and teachers urge children with the condition to follow the work and rest regime. When children are eating or doing homework, parents should control the environment and not actively distract them in order to develop good habits of single-mindedness in children with Tourette’s syndrome treatment. Psychological conflicts and tensions caused by parents’ excessive demands on their children must be overcome. If there are school factors, they should be addressed in collaboration with the teacher. For factors that cannot be resolved, supportive psychotherapy should be given to help the child find the correct way to approach the problem. In general, children with milder forms of the disorder and basically normal behavior are able to communicate normally with others around them and get along well. Parents should encourage their children with Tourette’s syndrome to go out and play more often and make more friends in the hope of forming an outgoing personality to minimize the negative effects of Tourette’s syndrome on the child. The more serious children may have difficulty interacting with others, because on the one hand, they may not be able to express themselves in words, on the other hand, they may have low self-esteem due to a decline in academic performance or because of their symptoms, and on the other hand, they may be rejected by people around them because of frequent obscene language and strange behavior, which not only has a negative impact on the formation of the child’s personality, but also brings many disadvantages to their daily interactions. At this time, parents should take advantage of their parental relationship and take the initiative to get close to the child, talk to him, communicate with him, help him untie the dark knot in his heart, and actively seek treatment from the doctor. After the tic symptoms are controlled, due to the long-term psychological effects, the child often develops psychological defects or disorders, and some even recover completely from the disease and still cannot adapt to society, refusing or not used to interact with people around them, forming an autistic mentality. Individuals will also have chronic anxiety, depression and transient emotions that cannot be controlled. All of these will cause the child’s self-esteem to suffer or be excluded from the group. It is also possible to seek treatment from a psychiatrist, encourage the child to speak up and ask for advice when in doubt, and the love of parents and people around the child can create a warm environment that is extremely conducive to the child’s psychological improvement. In short, the active treatment of children with this disease, while encouraging the child to interact with people around normal, undoubtedly has a significant impact on the quality of the child’s psyche.