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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 picturesare 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)

Sensitive Matters
Covering all of NJ,
Eastern PA, Delaware
856-223-1010

Gerrus Maintenance
Covering all Of NJ
(732) 225-0662

SI Restoration
Covering all of NJ
410-458-6180 Cell
800-356-0484 Office

•Additional crisis cleaning/hoarding related
•Want to break into the hoarding cleaning business?
•Hoarder Home Specialist Course

Doctors/Therapists/Counselors:

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

Harriet Raynes-Thaler, MSW, LCSW
3461 Route 22 E – Bldg 5
Branchburg, NJ 08876 US
Phone: (908) 704-9434
Fax: (908) 253-0141

Allen H. Weg Ed.D
Stress & Anxiety Services of NJ
A-1 Brier Hill Court
East Brunswick, NJ 08816 US
Phone: (732).390.6694

AnnaMarie Resnikoff, PhD
G9 Brier Hill Court
East Brunswick, NJ 08816 US
Phone: (732) 254-2222

Robert A. Zambrano, PsyD
A-1 Brier Hill Court
East Brunswick, NJ 08816 US
Phone: (710).390.6644
Fax: (732).432.7206

Charles Wuhl, MD
163 Engle Street
Englewood, NJ 07631 US
Phone: (201) 556-2228

Dr. Arnold Sperling, EDD, APN
33-01 Fairlawn Avenue
Fairlawn, NJ 07410 US
Phone: (201) 791-6167
Fax: (201) 791-0256

Harriet RaynesThaler, MSW, LCSW
5 Pleasant View Way
Flemington, NJ 08822
Phone: (908) 708-5136
Fax: (908) 782-8930

Robert C. Kornhaber, PhD
1567 Palisade Avenue Suite 2C
Fort Lee, NJ 07024 US
Phone: (201) 944-3665
Fax: (201) 944-4004

Melissa Adessa, LCSW, CADC
140 Prospect Avenue – Suite 4
Hackensack, NJ 07601 US
Phone: (201) 488-6543 x 27 or (201) 488-6916

Joseph A. Donnellan, MD
422 Countryard Drive
Hillsborough, NJ 08844 US
Phone: (908) 725-5595
Fax: (908) 725-3314

Dr. Raeann Dumont, PhD
895 Montgomery Street
Jersey City, NJ 07306
Phone: (201) 324-1212

Barbara Nicholls, MSW, LCSW
314 Dorn Avenue
Middlesex, NJ 08846 US
Phone: (732) 271-2537

Robert C. Kornhaber, PhD
206 Main Street Suite 22
Millburn, NJ 07041 US
Phone: (973) 376-6062
Fax: (973) 944-4004

Jerome Bubrick, PhD
103 Park Street
Montclair, NJ 07043 US
Phone: (917) 974-2429

Janine M. Tremblay, PhD, APN-C
150 Madison Avenue
Morristown, NJ 07960 US
Phone: (973) 993-0945

Howard A. Paul, PhD
1 Wedgewood Drive
North Brunswick, NJ 08902 US
Phone: (732) 846-7680
Fax: (732) 821-2747

Nina Simon, LCSW
377 Loretta Drive
Oradell, NJ 07649 US
Phone: (201) 265-4793

Michael Petronko, PhD
Rutgers University Anxiety Disorder Clinic
797 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: (732) 445-5384

Dr. Jeffrey Mattes, MD
Suite A-12
601 Ewing Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: (609) 921-9299
Fax: (609) 921-1322

Steve Resnick, MD
1000 Herrontown Road
Princeton, NJ 08540 US
Phone: (609) 683-0707
Fax: (609).683.8322

F. Thomas Crawley, Ed.D
1101 Richmond Ave Suite 104
Pt Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742 US
Phone: (732).295.3534

Dr. Joseph Springer, PhD
2130 Highway 35 – Bldg A
Suite 114
Sea Girt, NJ 08750
Phone: (732) 974-8883
Fax: (732) 449-7803

Deborah G. Salzman, PhD
Behavior Therapy Associates
35 Clyde Road – Suite 101
Somerset, NJ 08873 US
Phone: (732) 873-1212

Ernest Leibov, MD
350 Sparta Avenue
Building A
Sparta, NJ 07871
Phone: (973).729.0224

Michael Petronko, PhD
26 Linden Avenue
Springfield, NJ 07081
Phone: (913).258.1515

David A. Raush, PhD
13 E. Laurel Road
Stratford, NJ 08084
Phone: (856) 482-5860 or (856) 783-0260

Harish K. Malhotra, MD
Partners in Psychiatry, LLP
Medical Arts Center
33 Overlook Road – Suite 212
Summit, NJ 07901 US
Phone: (908) 273-6164
Fax: (908) 277-1439
Bilingual in Hindi, Purijabi & Urdu

William M. Gordon, PhD
224 Lorraine Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 US
Phone: (973) 744-8791

Henry J. Srednicki, PhD
543 Valley Road 2nd Floor
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 US
Phone: (973) 744-9130

Eugene J. Kucab, LCSW
577 Westfield Avenue
Westfield, NJ 07490 US
Phone: (908).232.8755

Karen Landsman, PhD
128 St Paul Street
Westfield, NJ 07090 US
Phone: (973) 895.2442

Perry H. Zand, MD, PC
620 N Broad Street – 2nd Floor
Woodbury, NJ 08096 US
Phone: (856) 662-1122
Fax: (856) 429-4212

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*

We aren’t aware of any Hoarding Task Forces in this area at this time, but please check the two sites* above who may have more current listings than we do at the present time.

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.

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,
from the IOCDF, if you’d like to start a group in your area!

Treatment Centers/Clinics for Hoarders:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area

Additional Information/Resources:

New Jersey OCF Affiliate
Ms. Ina Spero, President
Allen H. Weg, EdD, Vice President
60 MacAfee Road
Somerset, NJ 08873
(732) 828-0099
(732) 828-7088 (Fax)
Web site: www.njocf.org
Email: AllenWeg@aol.com
http://www.njocf.org/

New Jersey OCD Support Groups – is a list provided by the NJ Affiliate of the OCF:
http://www.njocf.org/support-groups.htm

News Articles/Media:
2/21/11: Passaic Fire Chief: House fire was ‘a horrible case of hoarding’

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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