Hoarding Disorder: What Clinicians Need to Know

Dates: 10/29/2024 & 11/5/2024    Time: 9:00-10:30am

Contact Hours/CEU’s: 3 hours

Method: Lecture, discussion
Description: It is estimated that 2%-6% of the population suffers from hoarding disorder. Across two sessions, this course will review the common mechanisms associated with the development of hoarding disorder as well as how to recognize, assess, and treat hoarding disorder. The course will also provide an overview of a newly developed eight-week specialty treatment program for hoarding disorder that can be effectively delivered both in office or via telehealth in standard length psychotherapy sessions. Program materials will be provided. Time for questions will be available after the presentation.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the common mechanism through which hoarding disorder causes a pathological attachment to possessions.
• Understand the diagnostic criteria, demographic statistics and current research related to hoarding disorder.
• Learn effective therapeutic interventions used to treat hoarding disorder, including a new evidence-based eight-week specialty treatment program designed to help clients:
  • Identifying decision making barriers.
  • Pushing through the distress in discarding.
  • Developing skills of time management to break down tasks into manageable periods.
  • Resisting continued acquisitions.
  • Developing a harm reduction plan of care.
  • Identifying supportive resources.
  • Developing goals to sustain decluttering efforts.

Instructors: Anne Pagano and Joan Vogt
Location: Live via Zoom
Cost: $150

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067, and by The New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0313

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.