...Experts usually draw the line between a merely messy lifestyle and hoarding “when it comes to the person’s ability to function,” Tolin says (Metcalf 1). Many individuals may keep things that they do not need; however, if they cannot live in their home securely or their living situation poses a danger to others, then it becomes a matter of concern. Hoarding, therefore, can be categorized by the persistent inability to desert or separate with possessions despite their actual value. Hoarding, however, although gaining some popularity through television shows, is still not respected as a serious disorder. Thus, although individuals may be aware of the hoarding disorder, they do not understand it, as well as knowing the symptoms and the...
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...Header: HOARDING AND SELF CONTROL Hoarding and Self Control Clinical Practicum Dr. Jones, Psy. D Hoarding is a phenomenon that has not been well defined but is clinically understood (Marchand & McEnany, 2012). Previous literature describes hoarding as a symptom of another pathological entity., In the past couple of years we have seen many television shows showcasing people who are not able to throw away possessions or have severe anxiety when attempting to discard items such as Hoarders, Extreme Clutter, or Hoarding: Buried Alive. In a recent study The Relationship Between Self-Control Deficits and Hoarding: A Multimethod Investigation Across Three Samples (2012) which looked at self-control and hoarding and wanted to see if there was a significant relationship. The researchers looked at self-control from a resource model that was created from a theoretical framework (Timpano & Schmidt, 2013). Literature states that “Self control can be exhausted through physical, cognitive, and emotional mechanisms“ (Timpano & Schmidt , 2013, p. 13). Upon looking at self control, researchers also wanted to see if there is any relevance of self-control to compulsive hoarding. Prior to Timpano & Schmidt (2013) studied, there has been no study or literature that has explicitly investigated the relationship between self-control and hoarding. However, previous studies have seen that “individuals with hoarding often had...
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...house, they cannot do anything because of the clutter, even prepare food, or eat at the table. Hoarding is defined as the acquirement of, and inability to discard worthless items even though they appear to have no value (Hall, 68). Hoarding behaviors can occur in a variety of psychiatric disorders and in the normal population, but are most commonly found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hoarding creates a lot of problems; both for the hoarder and those around them. One is just navigating through a congested obstacle course of stuff in a house becomes difficult. To get something requires searching through stacks of stuff. To put something away requires a nuisance of movement of all the stuff in the cramped area, as well as thinking and decisions on how to do it. Another problem is that there are no areas to do any real work such as counters, tables or workbenches. All this consumes a huge amount of time and energy of the people who live in such conditions. According to demographics, psychiatrists estimate between 2% and 5% of the adult population in the United States and Canada are compulsive hoarders. In North America alone, there are about 4000 cases of animal hoarding involving up to 250,000 reported animals. (Frey, 760) Researchers only began to study hoarding in the 1980s so it is possible that the actual rate of hoarding is higher than reported. This disorder is more common among older adults though it can typically begin in late childhood or adolescence...
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...like to put on the Agenda the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ so as to bring awareness on the impact of this condition on the individual, families and the wider community. I analyse the issue of ‘Hoarding and Squalor’ by using existing evidence anecdotal evidence through studies on the impact and consequences this issue at micro and macro level. Further I will demonstrate the associated current social policies around this problem by incorporating a combination of techniques with the aim of advocating for better supports and systems. My overall aim is to bring about a change, in particular around three goals. These goals are inclusive of Social Policy review, multi-agency approach and trans-disciplinary delivery, funding request from the State Government in particular Families and Communities Services (FACs) and Mental Health in order to work with families in a person [spelling error] cent[e]red, strength based manner to ensure sustainable results. I incorporate Jansson’s steps of, diagnosing the context to identify contextual constraints and opportunities, softening the context to make it more amenable to a specific policy initiative and lastly activating change to get a decision maker or legislator to put an issue on the agenda of the other decision makers in the agency, community or legislative setting. (Jansson, 2003, pp. 148-165). Diagnosing Context What is Hoarding and Squalor In May 2013, for the first time ‘Hoarding Disorder’ was defined, and included in a new...
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...Obsessive Compulsive Disorder What is OCD? OCD is an anxiety disorder where sufferers experience persistent and intrusive thoughts occurring as obsessions, compulsions or a combination of the two. Obsessions are things that people think about and can comprise of inappropriate ideas and visual images that aren’t based on reality, such as being convinced that there are germs everywhere. Compulsions are what people do as a result of those obsessions; they are an attempt to reduce distress or prevent feared events, though there is little chance of them doing so. Symptoms of OCD. Obsessive symptoms. Common obsessions include: * Contamination, eg by germs. * Fear of losing control, eg through impulses to hurt someone. * Perfectionism, eg fear of not being the best. * Religion, eg fear of being immoral. Common obsessions include: * Contamination, eg by germs. * Fear of losing control, eg through impulses to hurt someone. * Perfectionism, eg fear of not being the best. * Religion, eg fear of being immoral. Behavioural. * Hinders everyday functioning – having obsessive ideas of an inappropriate type creates such anxiety that the ability to perform everyday tasks is severely hindered, for example, being able to work effectively. * Social impairment – anxiety levels generated are so high as to limit the ability to conduct meaningful interpersonal relationships. Emotional. * Extreme anxiety – persistent inappropriate or forbidden ideas...
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...Literature Review There is a great deal of evidence based literature on many of the symptoms associated with the term hoarding and its relation to trauma. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM IV, listed hoarding as a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), known as “compulsive hoarding” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). However, throughout the years research has shown “compulsive hoarding” did not respond to OCD treatments, thus redefining hoarding in the [DSM-V-TR] as a psychiatric disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Until more recently hoarding was a very secretive and shameful disorder. Research suggest that 3-5% of the U.S. population suffers from a hoarding disorder. To put this into perspective, the state of Delaware has 900, 000 residences, 3-5% have hoarding disorder, which amounts to 18, 000- 45, 000 individuals. There are 300 million people in the United States, of that population 6-15 million people are affected by a hoarding disorder. (Cohn, 2012). To address and conceptualize Susan’s co-morbidities of her psychopathological mental distress and manifestations of behaviors I will use three evidence-based theoretical frameworks as...
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...Running head: OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Sabrina Smith West GA Technical College Abstract Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder of the brain and behavior. OCD causes severe anxiety for people who suffer from this disorder. OCD involves both obsessions and compulsions that take a lot of time and get in the way of significant activities. Obsessions are defined as repeated thoughts, images or impulses that are interfering and annoying. Compulsions are time-consuming and troubling repetitive rituals. There are more than 200,000 cases in America per year. There is no cure for OCD; however, there are different types of treatments that may help the chronic behaviors associated with this disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can last for many years and even an entire life span with some people. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heterogeneous condition characterized by a wide range of symptoms that can be distilled down to a smaller number of unique symptom dimensions (Cordeiro, Sharma, Thennarasu, & Reddy 2015). People with obsessive-compulsive disorder ten to be classified into one of the four major symptom dimensions: symmetry, forbidden thoughts, cleaning, and hoarding. A person’s personality trait significantly contributes to how severe someone’s obsessive compulsive disorder will become (Alonso, 2008). Symmetry – related to obsessive compulsive disorder – is just another way to classify someone as a...
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...Washing hands until they're raw, lining up cans in alphabetical order, hoarding every newspaper you’ve ever bought: welcome to the bizarre world of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Watching Jack Nicholson in his Oscar-winning performance as Melvin Udall in the 1997 hit movie, As Good as it Gets, had millions of people chuckling at the eccentric and neurotic antics he portrayed. He negotiates his way through the streets of Manhattan painstakingly avoiding the cracks in the sidewalk. He washes his hands habitually and always with a new bar of soap, which he then immediately discards. He takes his own plastic cutlery to the same table of the same restaurant day in, day out for breakfast. Entertaining to many, but to the people who suffer similar symptoms of OCD, such behaviour is a blight on their lives and the lives of those closest to them. It interferes with their ability to function socially and occupationally because of the inordinate amount of time that is consumed by the symptoms: unwanted and recurring thoughts, feelings and sensations (the obsessive part), the irrational drive to do things (the compulsive part) and the severe anxiety that goes hand in hand with these symptoms. It is an extremely debilitating condition that produces fear, apprehension, agitation and torment. It is also far more prevalent than most people imagine. OCD is the fourth most commonly diagnosed mental disorder, estimated to affect between 2% and 3% of the adult population. Irrational...
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...homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/brat Prevalence and correlates of hoarding behavior in a community-based sample Jack F. Samuels a,Ã, O. Joseph Bienvenu a, Marco A. Grados a, Bernadette Cullen a, Mark A. Riddle a, Kung-yee Liang b, William W. Eaton c, Gerald Nestadt a a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Meyer 109, Baltimore, MD 21287-7228, USA Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA c Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA b a r t i c l e in fo Article history: Received 14 February 2008 Received in revised form 7 April 2008 Accepted 8 April 2008 Keywords: Hoarding Prevalence Risk factors Personality disorders Comorbidity abstract Little is known about the prevalence and correlates of hoarding behavior in the community. We estimated the prevalence and evaluated correlates of hoarding in 742 participants in the Hopkins Epidemiology of Personality Disorder Study. The prevalence of hoarding was nearly 4% (5.3%, weighted) and was greater in older than younger age groups, greater in men than women, and inversely related to household income. Hoarding was associated with alcohol dependence; paranoid, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive–compulsive personality disorder traits; insecurity from home break-ins and excessive physical discipline...
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...Psychological Disorders and Treatment For this Assignment, you will apply the course material by answering the following questions in a 2-4 page, double-spaced paper. In completing this Assignment, be sure to use specific examples and references from the text. You will need a cover page, which includes your name, the name of the class and section, and the date. Psychological disorders and their treatment are a fascinating area to study. Imagine you are now a psychology professional, working with two separate clients, each experiencing one of the disorders which you read about this past week. (Be sure to use a different fictitious client than the one you discussed in the Unit 9 Discussion.) 1. Describe how you will identify the specific disorder through actual symptoms which the clients present, using the DSM-IV TR. 2. Recommend two different types of treatment options for each client based on the main four approaches we discussed this term (Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive, and Behavioral). 3. What specific techniques might you try using to help this client based on these schools of thought? 4. What are the ethical obligations of psychology professionals when it comes to selecting the best treatment? Jon is a 66 year old father of three grown children and is recently separated from his wife of 40 years, Myrna. Jon states that he is a Vietnam vet with service dates from 1963-1969 and a tour and a half of duty in Vietnam. He suffers from nightmares...
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...Healthy Home: Healthy Me Review of the Northside Community Service 2011 Severe Domestic Squalor & Hoarding Pilot Project Institute of Child Protection Studies Australian Catholic University October 2011 October 1, 2011 [HEALTHY HOME: HEALTHY ME] Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge and thank the clients of Healthy Home Healthy Me who made themselves available to talk about their experiences of the program. Thanks also to the range of stakeholders who participated in the review. Report by: Megan Layton Morag McArthur This project was commissioned by Northside Community Service. Thanks to Justin Barker and Tim Moore for their comments on the draft. Institute of Child Protection Studies Canberra Campus Australian Catholic University PO Box 256 DICKSON ACT 2602 icps@signadou.acu.edu.au Phone: 02 6209 1225 Fax: 02 6209 1216 http://www.acu.edu.au/icps/ Institute of Child Protection Studies, p2 October 1, 2011 [HEALTHY HOME: HEALTHY ME] Foreword by Northside Community Service ‘Healthy Home Healthy Me’ was an 18 week pilot program that supported nine clients to reduce severe domestic squalor and chronic hoarding within Canberra’s Inner North. During 2009/10, the Aged and Disability Home and Community Care (HACC) program at Northside Community Service (NCS) had received a high number of referrals for people presenting with issues related to hoarding and/or squalor. Prior to the pilot program, all nine of the program participants initially received...
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...Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and many others as well. Mental illnesses can cause negative feelings and expectations of possible incapabilities in the afflicted patients, attaching a stigma leading to more negative effects in their lives. This stigma can persist throughout their life by limiting job opportunities, denying benefits, or limiting social interaction. It can also affect family life not only by making general...
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...Sleep wake disorders include; circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder, hypersomnolence, insomnia disorder, nightmare disorder, narcolepsy, rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder, restless leg syndrome, and non-rapid eye movement sleep arousal disorder. Childhood disorders include; autism spectrum disorders, attachment disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, conduct disorder, disorder of written expression, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, encopresis, enuresis, expressive language disorder, mathematics disorder, mental retardation, oppositional defiant disorder, reading disorder, rumination disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety disorder, social communication disorder, stereotypic movement disorder, stuttering, touretts disorder, transient tic...
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...Psychologists originally thought that hoarding was related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, but after further research and treatment it has shown that the two disorders are more different than alike (Tolin). David Tolin, the director of anxiety disorders at the mental health center “The Institute of Living”, and his colleagues wanted to understand what went through the brain of a hoarder. They used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain activity of 43 individuals who were considered hoarders. Each test subject was asked to make decisions regarding keeping items or throwing them away. The fMRI measures blood flow to the brain allowing the researchers to see which parts of the brain are more active than others when given...
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...Anorexia Nervosa-intro? Anorexia Nervosa is considered a psychiatric illness characterized by disturbed eating patterns and severe loss of weight with potentially serious medical complications (DSM 4, 2000; Halmi, 2005; Mehler, 2001). It is the third most common chronic illness among females in the United States, with a mortality rate that is 12 times higher than all other causes of death for females between 15 – 24 years old (cite). What usually begins as a relatively benign attempt to lose weight can turn into a life threatening disease with a persistent scope that profoundly affects the individual, the family, and society (Anorexia book). Research has shown that anorexia usually begins during late adolescence following a reduction in caloric intake due to voluntary dieting, stress, illness, or other precipitating cause (Cite). Onset is rare in individuals over 40 years old. The course is varied; some individuals have a single episode, and others experience a long-term disease process with an increased likelihood of multiple relapses and remissions (cite). Up to 16% of patients meet the criteria for anorexia but often not until approximately a decade after their initial symptoms. Prognosis is poor for patients with long-term illnesses; treatment is much more effective if initiated early in the course of the disease (cite). Approximately 20% of people with anorexia will die from complications such as heart complications, lack of nutritional needs, and suicide (cite). ...
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