BookGail Steketee, Randy O. Frost.
Summary: The relationship people have with their possessions ranges from purely utilitarian to intensely emotional. For most people, their personal possessions provide them with a sense of security, comfort, and pleasure. However, if someone loses the ability to distinguish useful or important possessions from those that make life overly complicated, the objects can become a prison. For people who suffer from Hoarding Disorder (HD), the process of getting rid of unneeded objects is not easy. For them, possessions never "feel" unneeded and trying to get rid of them is an excruciating emotional ordeal.
Contents:
Introduction to Hoarding Disorder
Evidence-based treatment for Hoarding Disorder
Assessing hoarding
Case formulation
Enhancing motivation
Planning treatment
Reducing acquiring
Training skills
Making decisions about saving and discarding
Cognitive strategies
Complications in the treatment of Hoarding Disorder
Maintaining gains
Appendices : Clinician session form
Hoarding interview
Hoarding rating scale
Saving inventory : revised (SI-R)
Clutter image rating (CIR)
Saving cognitions inventory (SCI)
Activities of daily living for hoarding (ADL-H)
Safety questions
Home environment inventory (HEI)
Scoring keys for assessment instruments
Blank model of hoarding
Brief thought record
Acquiring form
Clutter visualization form
Unclutter visualization form
Acquiring visualization form
Practice form
Thought record
Instructions for coaches
Family response to hoarding scale (FRHS).