Training Title:
Hoarders: Diagnosis and Treatment, part 1

Clock Hours: 1

Objectives:
After completing this course, participants should be able to: • Understand the differences between hoarding, collecting, and OCD • Recall key traits that identify a hoarder

Description:
For the past decade, psychologists Randy Frost, Ph.D., Psychology, and Gail Steketee, MSS, Ph.D., Clinical Research, have studied hoarders: people who compulsively acquire a lot of stuff, and then have difficulty discarding the objects they obtain. In their book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, the two researchers detail how compulsive behaviors drive sufferers to pile objects throughout their homes. In Part 1 of this series, Steketee focuses on clarifying the diagnosis of hoarding and the key traits that differentiate a hoarder from a collector.

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