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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 aren’t aware of any at this time in this area)

A-1 BIO-Clean Service
Atlanta and services Statewide
(404) 606-0134
http://hoardingcleanup.com/a_1_bio_clean_services

Bio – Hazard Services Inc.
Douglas, GA
(912) 260 – 5707
http://hoardingcleanup.com/bio_hazard_services_inc

Advanced Bio-Treatment
Atlanta, GA
(800) 860-4268
http://hoardingcleanup.com/advanced_bio_treatment

•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

Martha T. Little, MD
296 S. Main St – Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30004 US
Phone: (770) 772-0909 (phone)
Fax: (770) 442-1542

Lisa R. Terry, LPC
11815 Northfall Lane
Suite 1006
Alpharetta, GA 30004 US
Phone: (770)645.1733

Nader Amir, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
706-542-1173

Atlanta:
Dr. Dave M. Davis, MD
1938 Peachtree Road # 506
Piedmont Psychiatric Clinic
Atlanta, GA 30309-1254 US
Phone: (404) 355-2914
Fax: (404) 355-2917

Libby Tannenbaum, Ph.D.
Atlanta, GA
404-634-3400

Elana Zimand, Ph.D.
Atlanta, GA
404-634-3400

Barbara O. Rothbaum, PhD
Dept of Psychiatry – Emory Clinic
1365 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322 US
Phone: (404) 778-3875

Dr. Helen G. Jenne, PsyD, ABPP
3495 Piedmont Road, NE
Bldg 12 – Suite 407
Atlanta, GA 30305 US
Phone: (404).419.6282

Pamela G. Dorsett, PsyD
6000 Lake Forest Dr
Suite 103
Atlanta, GA 30328 US
Phone: (404).256.9325

Sheryl K. Pruitt, M.Ed
Parkaire Consultants Inc.
4939 Lower Roswell Road
Bldg C – # 201
Atlanta, GA 30068 US
Phone: (770).578.1519

Rebecca Beaton, MD
The Anxiety & Stress Mgt Institute
1640 Powers Ferry Rd
Bldg 9-100
Atlanta, GA 30067 US
Phone: (770).953.0080
Fax: (770).953.0031

Rena Zweben, PhD
Suite 201
3115 Roswell Road
Marietta, GA 30062 US
Phone: (678).560.7755
Fax: (678).560.9976

Saundra Schoicket, PhD
Spalding Exchange – Suite 200
3949 Holcomb Bridge Road
Norcross, GA 30092 US
Phone: (770) 840-9203

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

Atlanta Hoarding Task Force
Decatur, Georgia , USA
County:DeKalb
Primary Service Area(s):
Metro Atlanta
Website: http://atlantahoardingtaskforce.com/

Mission Statement:
To make resources and services available to Metro-Atlanta compulsive hoarders and their families and to educate those who encounter hoarders.

More Info:
We identify and assist in implementing the services available for compulsive hoarders in metro-Atlanta. These services can aid individuals whose excessive saving undermine their health and/or safety or compromise their living space so profoundly that daily living is extremely difficult.

Note:
March 2012, Atlanta Hoarding Task Force , Annual Meeting, date/time/place to be determined.

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:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area

Additional Information/Resources:
n/a

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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