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Animal Hoarding:

We aren’t aware of any specialized resources in this area for animal hoarding right now, but below are good sources of information that may help lead you to find resources in your area:

• HARC, the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium, a group of researchers who collaborated from 1997-2006 to define and better understand the problem of animal hoarding.
• The Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine-Crisis Intervention Information
  Also: Fee-for-Service Consultations– Long distance telephone consultation services provided (or available) for out-of-state clients or organizations. References are available upon request. For further information and costs of service, contact Email: jnncnslt@aol.com or (617) 325-4828
• Infographic: The challenge of intervention
• Comprehensive List re: Animal Hoarding, Stepping out of Squalor Forums
• 3 Stages & types of animal hoarding, by Gary J. Patronek, VMD, PhD. (Infographic)
• In this podcast, Dr. Gary Patronek, clinical assistant professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, discusses animal hoarding.
• Descriptive model: Path to Animal Hoarding
• Animal Hoarding News & Information
• Animal Hoarding: A View from the Trenches, PsychologyToday.com, March 8, 2011-By Jessie Sholl-author of Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding 

Assessment & Measurement Tools:

• The Institute for Chronic Disorganization Clutter-Hoarding Scale
  Free assessment tool to help professional organizers and related professionals evaluate the health and safety aspect of clutter/hoarding situations. More info about the ICD Hoarding Scale: Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 / Levels 4 & 5. Another good overview for understanding of this scale, and a 9-page report outlining it as well.
• Saving Cognitions Inventory
  Steketee, G., Frost, R.O., & Kyrios, M. (2003). Cognitive aspects of compulsive hoarding. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27, 463-479.
  
• Saving Inventory-Revised (SIR)
  Assesses the severity of the three core features of hoarding: excessive acquisition, difficulty discarding, and clutter. International OCD Foundation Hoarding Center.
  
• Structured Interview Hoarding Disorder (SIHD)
  Alberto Pertusa, David Mataix-Cols, August 2010.
  
• Hoarding Rating Scale (HRS)
  The Hoarding Rating Scale is a 5-item semi-structured interview that can also be used as a questionnaire. The five questions include questions about clutter, difficulty discarding, excessive acquisition, distress caused by hoarding and impairment resulting from it. International OCD Foundation Hoarding Center.
  
• Clutter Image Rating (CIR) “To make sure we get an accurate sense of a clutter problem, we created a series of pictures of rooms in various stages of clutter…” These pictures are published in treatment manual (Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide, Oxford University Press) and in self-help book (Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring,Saving, and Hoarding, Oxford University Press) 

Authority in the U.S. for Information about Hoarding Disorder:

Cleaning Companies-Hoarded Environments:

• National/International listings at Hoarding CleanUp.com/Cory Chalmers
• Cleaning Companies who extend discounts to family members cleaning out for a hoarding loved one: (sorry, we don’t know about any in FL)
  

NORTHERN FLORIDA

Accident Cleaners Inc.
Ocala, Fl
352-804-3992
866-402-9112
http://hoardingcleanup.com/accident_cleaners_

Associated Services
All of Northern Florida
850-524-6763
http://hoardingcleanup.com/associated_services

CENTRAL FLORIDA

Spaulding Decon
Tampa Bay 813-298-7122
Orlando 407-405-4413
http://hoardingcleanup.com/spaulding_decon

SOUTHERN FLORIDA

ACT Cleaning and Restoration
All of Southern Florida
239-303-9754
http://hoardingcleanup.com/act

XS-Trash
Miami/West Palm Beach
1-866 XS-TRASH
http://hoardingcleanup.com/xs_trash

•Want to break into the cleaning business of helping people who hoard and/or their families?
•Hoarder Home Specialist Course

Crisis cleaning/hoarding related

Doctors/Therapists/Counselors:

• National/International listings: from the International OCD Foundation
• Professional Associations:
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Karen Larkey, PsyD
283 Crones Roost Blvd – Suite 111
Altemonte Springs, FL 32701
Phone: (407) 265-1900
Email: Drlarkey@aol.com

Blanche Freund, PhD
Turnberry Plaza
2875 NE 191 Street – Suite 903A
Aventura, FL 33180
Phone: (305) 573-1733
Fax: (305.937.0625

Karen Comiter Beer, LCSW
2499 Glades Road – Suite 108
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: (561) 620-4844
Fax: (561) 361-0368
Email: LCSWmom3@aol.com

Bruce M. Hyman, PhD, LCSW
OCD Resource Center of Florida,
Boca Raton Office
398 Camino Gardens Blvd – Suite 207
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Phone: (954) 962-6662
Email: ocdhope@bellsouth.net

Jodi Jacobson, LCSW, MSW
7301-A W. Palmetto Park Road
Suite 106C
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (561) 391-4669
Fax: (561) 391-1815

Dr. Louis T. LaPorta, Jr.
7200 W Camino Real – Suite 314
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (561) 901-1430

Priti M. Kothari, MD, PA
9325 Glades Road Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33434
Phone: (954)385.0353

Stacy Sanders Shaup, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
OCD Resource Center of Florida
1499 West Palmetto Park Road
Executive Suites
Boca Raton, FL 33486
Phone: (954) 962-6662 x4

Blanche Freund, PhD
1230 South Federal Highway – Suite 102
Boynton Beach, FL 33435
Phone: (561) 523-0206
Fax: (561) 736-4025(fax)

Francine Sherwood, LCSW
Coral Springs, FL
tsipi@juno.com

Regine I. Diamond, JD, MSW, LCSW
2699 Sterling Road #A 105
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33312
Phone: (954).964.3249
Email: regine@reginediamond.com

Gary R. Geffken, PhD
4324 NW 21st Street
Gainesville, FL 32605
Phone: (352) 392-3856
Email: Geffken@psych.med.ufl.edu

Wayne K. Goodman, MD
Dept of Psychiatry MBI L4-100
PO Box 100256
Gainesville, FL 32610
Phone: (352) 392-3681
Email: wkgood@psychiatry.ufl.edu

Eric Storch, PhD
University of Florida OCD Program
Dept of Psychiatry
Box 100234
Gainesville, FL 32610
Phone: (352).392.3613
Fax: (352).392.3614
Email: estorch@ufl.psychiatry.edu

Jean H. Gibson, PhD
1198 Gulf Breeze Parkway
Suite 3
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
Phone: (850).934.4523

Karen Breakstone, MD
3475 Sheridan Street – Suite 308
Hollywood, FL 33021
Phone: (954) 893-9223
Email: kubmd@bellsouth.net

Bruce M. Hyman, PhD, LCSW
OCD Resource Center of Florida, Hollywood Office
(see also Boca Raton)
Sheridan Executive Center
3475 Sheridan Street #310
Hollywood, FL 33021
Phone: (954) 962-6662
Email: OCDHope@bellsouth.net

Stacy Sanders Shaup, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
OCD Resource Center of Florida
Suite 310
3475 Sheridan Street
Hollywood, FL 33021
Phone: (954).962.6662 x 4

Amaya Ramos, MD
8225 State Road 52
Hudson, FL 34667
Phone: (727) 861-1765

Cindy Richetti, Mental Health Counselor
100 Executive Way-Suite 200
(Ponte Vedra 32082)
Jacksonville, FL
Phone: (904).280.8006
Fax: (904).280.8009

Mary E. Morel, LCSW
10225 Ulmerton Rd,8-B
Largo, FL 33771
Phone: (727).586.0636
Fax: (727).585.6287

Roberta Shapiro PhD
4530 Prairie Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Phone: (305).674.8158
Fax: (305).534.2304
Email: rshap33@earthlink.net

Amie E. Grills, Ph.D.
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816
(407) 823-2568

R. Scott Benson, MD
Bldg 6-5190 Bayou Boulevard
Pensacola, FL 32503
Phone: (850)476.0977
Fax: (850).476.2558

James Lemli, PhD
3900 Clark Road – Suite D1
Sarasota, FL 34233
Phone: (941) 924-8484
Fax: (941) 924-9980

Thomas Joiner, Ph.D.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
850-644-1454

Brad Schmidt, Ph.D.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
850-645-1766

Kristi F. Weiner, PhD, PA
Psychology Center of Tampa Bay, Inc.
13357 N. 56th Street
Tampa, FL 33617
Phone: (813) 914-9000
Email: kweinerphd@tampabay.rr.com

A. Carter Pottash, MD, D.F.A.P.A.
Post Office Box 511
West Palm Beach, FL
Phone: (561).837.2215

Priti M. Kothari, MD, PA
1730 Main Street
Suite 222
Weston, FL 33326
Phone: (954)385.0353

Regine I. Diamond, JD, MSW, LCSW
1730 Main Street # 212
Weston, FL 33326
Phone: (954).964.3249
Email: regine@reginediamond.com

Nancy Rizzo, PhD – BTI Graduate
1850 Lee Road
Suite 321
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: (407).822.4880
Email: nrizzopsyd@aol.com

Elders:
Image source-My Mother’s Garden Documentary

• National Center on Elder Abuse: State Directory of Helplines, Hotlines, and Elder Abuse Prevention Resources-State reporting numbers, government agencies, state laws, state-specific data and statistics, and other resources.
• The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. (NAELA) was founded in 1987 as a professional association of attorneys who are dedicated to improving the quality of legal services provided to people as they age and people with special needs.
• National Association Senior Move Managers -Facilitates “the physical and emotional aspects of relocation for older adults, with a national referral network, for delivery of services with compassion and integrity.”

Elder & hoarding related info & news stories

Fire Departments Specially Trained for Hoarded Structures/Related:
Currently we don’t know of any specialized training in this area. Here’s what they are doing in Arizona though-hooray AZ!

Maricopa County firefighters practice battling fires in hoarder homes.
Watch the video.

Fire & safety hoarding related news stories

Hoarding Task Forces & Related Services:

• About Hoarding Task Forces, by Christiana Bratiotis, PhD, Boston University
• Hoarding Intervention Resource Guide
  Orange County California Task Force on Hoarding
• International Exchange on Hoarding (Task Force Lists)*
• International Hoarding Task Force List from the IOCD Foundation*

Please check the two sites* above who may have more current listings than we do at the present time.

Lee County (FL) Hoarding Task Force
Florida , USA
County:Lee County
Primary Service Area(s):
Lee County

Broward County Hoarding Task Force
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida , USA
County:Broward
Primary Service Area(s):
Broward County, FL

Professional Organizers:

• Excerpt from: Professional Organizers & Hoarding Clients
  by Cristina Sorrentino Schmalisch, PhD, LICSW

Professional organizers can provide important help for clients who are getting mental health treatment for hoarding. Very few mental health providers make home visits and even those who do can usually only provide limited visits (for example, once per month). Working with a professional organizer can give clients critical hands-on help with their hoarded items. Ideally, the professional organizer would contact the therapist and work with them to help the client’s hoarding symptoms.

Some professional organizers have specialized training in working with hoarding or related problems, such as chronic disorganization (CD). This specialized Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) provides information about CD and trains professionals to work effectively with this problem. However, CD is not the same as hoarding because a person may be chronically disorganized without having hoarding (for example, because of current depression or attention deficit disorder). In contrast, most people who hoard do have CD. The ICD provides contact information for professional organizers with different levels of expertise in working with CD (www.challengingdisorganization.org). The National Association of Professional Organizers provides contact information for the broader group of professional organizers and also provides training opportunities.

•Want to break into the organizing business & help hoarding clients?
•The Board of Certification for Professional Organizers (BCPO^®) (certifying body whose charter is to increase the professionalism of the organizing industry)

Professional organizers

Support Groups, In-person-Family Members of Hoarders:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area

Support Groups, In-person-Hoarders:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area

Manual for Facilitating a Support Group, IOCDF, if you’d like to start one in your area!

Treatment Centers/Clinics for Hoarders:

OCD Resource Center of South Florida
Hollywood, FL
954-962-6662
http://www.ocdhope.com/

Additional Information/Resources:

OCF of Jacksonville
Gay Nightingale, President
4495-304 Roosevelt Blvd. PMB # 205
Jacksonville, FL 33310
(904) 728-7834
Web site: www.ocfjax.org
Email: info@ocfjax.org

News Articles/Media:

General hoarding related news articles in our archives/all areas, if you’d like to see how the reporting has changed (and readers comments) with all the recent awareness about Hoarding Disorder:

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