Compulsive Hoarding: Conceptualizing and Treating the Chaos

VYNE

Format(s):   Home-study
Discipline(s):   Counseling / Social Work / Psychology
Contact Hours:   0
Registration Fee:   $179.00

Objectives

Recognize the behavioral and cognitive symptoms associated with hoarding.
Identify the unique complex characteristics of hoarding, including brain structural differences.
Gain an overview of cognitive-behavioral and biopsychosocial perspectives on hoarding including etiological theories, possible vulnerability factors, course of disorder over the lifetime, and the impact of age and gender.
Explore the new DSM-5 criteria for Hoarding Disorder and distinguish Axis I OCD from Axis II Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). Determine what diagnostic tools can assist in proper assessment.
Discuss specific interventions for hoarding that are used by top researchers and clinicians.

Target Audience

• Psychologists • Psychiatrists • Licensed Professional Counselors • Social Workers • Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors • Marriage and Family Therapists • Case Managers • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners • Primary Care Physicians • Educators

Confirmation Notes

Receive unlimited access from the time of purchase through completion and submission of the online exam. Once the exam is taken the seminar will be available for 30 days before course access expires.
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Agenda

Description

A Complex and Unique Disorder
Previous treatments for hoarding have been vastly ineffective due in part to a lack of formal definition of the diagnostic criteria, deficits of applied research, faulty case conceptualization, and scant treatment interventions. With the recent release of the DSM-5, in which Hoarding Disorder has finally been identified as its own disorder, appropriate clinical treatment interventions can now be guided by these revisions. The continual increase of media attention brings an onslaught of clients seeking clinical interventions from professional mental health care providers who are vastly unprepared to treat this rapidly growing and misunderstood population. Although hoarding has traditionally been considered a symptom dimension within OCD and OCPD, recent research findings has proved otherwise and led to the latest DSM-5 revisions. Patients who hoard do not respond similarly to the psychotherapies or pharmacological treatments used for other OCD manifestations. Instead, a multimodal cognitive-behavioral and medication approach has been shown to have a much greater success rate in the treatment of compulsive hoarding.
This seminar helps participants conceptualize the chaos specific to hoarding and learn treatment strategies that actually improve patient outcomes. Course work delves into the phenomenology associated with hoarding and OCD and investigates their similarities and differences. This seminar covers both assessment and interventions, including case studies that illustrate the findings and prepare you to truly help your clients who hoard. Participants benefit from videos, group exercises, and adult learning theory methods. Don't miss this valuable opportunity.