Clearing the Chaos: ADHD-Informed Strategies for Tackling Clutter & Hoarding
A cluttered, disorganized living environment is as common as it is unsettling for many people who have ADHD. Overwhelm often prevents them from even getting started on decluttering. For some people, the clutter reaches a level that compromises their ability to live safely in their homes. This is usually the result of hoarding disorder. Sometimes, it’s difficult to discern what constitutes clutter versus hoarding. Michael Tompkins, Ph.D., will explain why the traits in ADHD contribute to excessive clutter and hoarding. He will also walk viewers through managing these often debilitating situations and employing strategies for success. In this webinar, you will learn: About the ADHD traits and underlying causes that contribute to clutter and hoarding About signs of clutter and hoarding, and red flags for when clutter turns into hoarding How clutter is different from hoarding, and the characteristics that define each About practical strategies to help decrease clutter and disorganization How to deal with hoarding in your own living situation or with a loved one How cognitive behavior therapy for ADHD and hoarding can help people manage better Have a question for our expert? There will be an opportunity to post questions for the presenter during the live webinar.
Introduction to Hoarding Disorder
Hoarding disorder (HD) is the acquisition and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to be useless or of limited value in an attempt to postpone or decrease distress. Hoarding disorder, as well as other hoarding behavior, is a serious and growing problem that can lead to eviction, homelessness, and death, and comprise some 40% of the hoarding complaints to local health departments. Those most at risk are frail older adults with poor physical and social capacity who live in these highly cluttered and unsafe environments. Furthermore, those with the problem often have other psychiatric disorders as well as little awareness of the consequences they face living in a hoarded environment. In this 3-hour webinar, Dr. Tompkins describes hoarding disorder, harm potential, features of the condition, and typical intervention options for the problem. Learning Objectives: Attendees will be able to define hoarding disorder. Attendees will be able to identify factors that influence harm potential. Attendees will be able to identify intervention options for hoarding disorder. 3.0 Contact Hours of Continuing Education
Engaging Clients Who Hoard
Motivational Interviewing Strategies and Techniques Join JFCS and the Philadelphia Hoarding Task Force for a one-day virtual seminar with Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, ABPP, to help professionals build the skills they need to successfully support individuals who hoard. Attendees will learn: The role of low insight in harm potential for people who hoard The stages of change model applied to people who hoard Strategies to build motivation to accept help for people who hoard Strategies to maintain the motivation of people who hoard through the helping process Credits: 5.5 CEUs 6.0 CE credit hours for Psychologists. BHTEN is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BHTEN maintains responsibility for this program & its content. 0.6 CEUs (0.6 CEUs=6 TRAINING HOURS). BHTEN is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. As an IACET Accredited Provider, BHTEN offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard. BHTEN is authorized by IACET to offer 0.6 CEUs for this program 6.0 SW credit hours. This program is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a CSWE the accredited program, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College is an approved provider of continuing education for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Pennsylvania and many other states. Michael A. Tompkins (PSY13822), PhD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and board-certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. He is the co-director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Diplomat and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a trainer and consultant for the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior. He received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in innovation, treatment, and research in the field of hoarding and cluttering by the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.