PPT-Compulsive Hoarding

Dr Jennifer Patterson Dr Melissa Rowland MidAmerican Psychological Institute PC Objectives Define hoarding Identify different types of hoarding Causes of hoarding How hoarding evolves Treatment and prognosis. Is compulsive hoarding caused by past poverty or hardship? People who hoard may call themselves “thrifty.” They may also think that their behavior is due to having lived through a period of Hoarding, Clutter, and Mental Illness. Gregory S. Chasson, Ph.D.. Licensed Psychologist. Assistant Professor . Department of Psychology. Towson University. Principal Investigator. Site for OCD & Autism Research. 1. Garbage . Is Gold: The Lack of Awareness of Compulsive Hoarding . By . Carine. Chan. Place Cartier Adult Education Centre. Outline . Introduction. . Thesis:. Due . to popular television shows such as “Hoarders”, compulsive hoarding has become . hoarding behavior.hoarding in the elderly. Background ed States increases, so, too, do thetion of and failure to discard a largeUnited States has a hoarding condi-tion. A recent study found that thed The Nature of Our . Relationships with Things. C. Alec Pollard, Ph.D.. Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute & Saint Louis University. General Definition of Hoarding. The process of acquiring and saving possessions. Allison E. Cowan MD . Julie P. Gentile MD. Ohio’s Coordinating Center of Excellence in MIDD. And . Ohio’s Telepsychiatry Project in ID. Diagnostic Manual-Intellectual Disability. DSM-V criteria adapted to better fit ID patient population. Related . Disorders. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Characterized by obsessions, compulsions, or both. Obsessions include recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts. Student Name :. Hessa. . AlSunaid. Outline.. This research teaches . people how to deal with . OCD . And notice the symptoms to decrees the disease in the future and know what . causes.. Research . Questions. Hoarding and Homelessness Randy O. Frost, Ph.D. Harold and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology Smith College Jonathan Kessler, LCSW Team Leader/Coordinator HUD/VASH Housing First ACT Team NY Harbor Healthcare System, Manhattan Campus What is a hoarder? What even is hoarding? Is it simply continuing to hold possessions after their intended use has ended? Unfortunately it is not that simple, as you will understand after reading this book. What is OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? What are the symptoms, causes, treatments and signs? All covered in this book. The author, Lindsay Leatherdale, a 19 year old neuro-science and psychology under graduate, with a special interest in hoarding, has a friend who\'s mum is a hoarder. She wanted to help her friend and her mum by giving them some books to read. To her disappointment there was a lack of informative books available on hoarding. She decided to investigate the subject thoroughly and write a book about it to be able to help her friend and lots of other people. This book is a must have for anybody who is confronted with hoarding and/or OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straightforward, no nonsense fashion, Lindsay covers all aspects of hoarding including types of hoarding, early warning signs, symptoms, behavioral patterns, causes, what can you do to help a hoarder, who can diagnose it, treatments available, medication, working or living with a person who hoards, and a lot more.... With separate chapters on many other disorders associated with hoarding and with OCD, this book is full of sound advice and answers to all your questions. This book has helped me to understand what\'s going on in my mum\'s mind. All I did was shout at her to clean up her mess before I read this book. Now I understand a lot more about hoarding and OCD and I will never shout again about her mess. I have practised a few help-tips from the book and I couldn\'t believe it when mum gave me a box of stuff to throw away! That\'s called a result! Sarah Porter Easy to read, written in a style for anybody to understand hoarding and OCD, I can recommend this book. It certainly has answered all my questions. Glen Howard PRA onsumerism drives economies; we acquire and discard possessions without distress. his process is well managed by most with only the occasional glitch. For those who compulsively hoard, this proce 354 SummaryObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders have been the subject of significant revisions in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). One of these to Help with Hoarding Compulsive hoardingpathological hoarding) is the excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them), even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanit Hoarding. is the persistent accumulation of and lack of . ability . to relinquish large numbers of objects or living . animals. . . It . results in extreme clutter in and around premises, . compromising .