Category: Understanding Hoarding

Watch: The Hoarder, the Family & the Help

It takes a village to help a hoarder, and the Lester Family and Orange County Task Force on Hoarding strive to do just that. This video features scenes from Cynthia Lester’s film: http://www.mymothersgardenmovie.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT0T5GimE0

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Treating People Who Hoard — What Works for Clients and Families

TV reality shows can help and hurt people who hoard. Find out why and know what really works best for clients and the families who care about them.

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Two researchers are studying patients and their families to help cut down on compulsive clutter

…he’s interested whether, like hoarders, the relatives also exhibit a malfunction of their so-called “executive functions” — the cognitive and regulatory processes carried out in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.

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Second Phase of COH Research Project (closed)

From: OCDIGNO– RE: Children of Hoarders Research Project- Dr Suzanne Chabaud’s research team continues to conduct interviews with our Children of Hoarders group. She and her team are grateful for all that you have done and continue to do. Her team will eventually interview everyone who volunteered and returned the initial survey, informed consent and …

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New:Hoarding Treatment Guide Published

School of Social Work researchers publish hoarding treatment guide-The guide includes case studies, tips and strategies and suggestions for appropriate interventions. Organized around the ways hoarding captures the attention of service providers, the handbook provides tools to help professionals assess the problem, coordinate and delegate tasks, and work directly with reluctant hoarders and others affected …

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Hoarding in Vancouver, Task Force

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NPR: American Society on Aging Conference

Massive Clean Up Is No Cure For Hoarding

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Journal of Clinical Psychology Special Issue: Hoarding Disorder

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Recruiting Study: Treatment of Late Life Hoarding

Official Title: “Treatment of Late Life Compulsive Hoarding” Study Primary Completion Date: October 2015 -The purpose of this investigation is to examine treatment outcome of a new intervention for hoarding in older adults compared to standard case management for hoarding. The new intervention combines exposure therapy and cognitive remediation. Detailed Clinical Trial Description Research has shown that …

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Australian Center Readies Brain Research Program

=Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology acquires Elekta Neuromag TRIUX magnetoencephalography (MEG) system to study brain in action= =/PRNewswire/ — Certain brain processes happen in the blink of an eye – and even faster – which has made pinpointing these events virtually impossible. The advent of magnetoencephalography (MEG) changed all that, enabling researchers to capture brain …

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The loss connection, by Mark A. Chidley

My opinion is that the roles of unresolved loss in general and traumatic loss in particular need further inspection in connection with hoarding. The mismanagement of a single major loss or clustered losses along life’s way could represent a turning point that makes either object hoarding or animal hoarding go active. This is not to …

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MN, 4/20/11: Collaborative Therapy Networking Event

=When: Wed, April 20, 4:30 to 6:30pm= =Where: U of M St. Paul Campus, McNeal Hall 377= Minnesota Hoarding Project Open house networking opportunity for professionals who work with persons who hoard and their families to discuss research and professional collaboration between the therapy and professional organization worlds. Presented by: Jennifer Sampson, M.S., LMAFT Dakota …

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Matt Paxton’s-5 Decisions Away Blog

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UCSD Hoarding Study-12 wks: free meds/scans/evals.

Study Conducted by Sanjaya Saxena, M.D. UCSD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Program Department of Psychiatry UCSD School of Medicine View official flyer from UCSD Initial Approval: 08/05/2010-Current Approval: 08/05/2010 Project #: #101184     ***   Research Study Are you a Packrat? Hoarder? Clutterer?  The UCSD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) Program is looking for people with problems with …

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No, You Are Not A Book Hoarder

No, You Are Not A Book Hoarder- Making light of hoarding — or any mental illness — is disrespectful.- Published on March 28, 2011  By Jessie Sholl- I was already doing research for a story I hoped to write about book hoarding and now seem to have missed the boat, but that’s not the only …

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