What is the most frequently diagnosed type of hoarding?
Common hoarding behavior
100
what are the two main types of treatment
1. psychotherapy
2. medication
100
Hoarding can be a symptom of this disorder
What is OCD
100
The three characteristics of what makes a hoarder
What is
Acquiring things
Inability to get rid of them
Disorganized clutter
200
What type of hoarder collects old t-shirts, outdated magazines, and trash?
Diogenes Syndrome
200
what is the most popular type of psychotherapy?
cognitive behavior therapy
200
Test used to diagnosis someone as a hoarder
What is Saving Inventory-Revised or Activities of Daily Living
200
How many hoarders have other OCD (non-hoarding) symptoms?
1 in 5
300
What type of hoarder owns more of a living thing than they can care for?
Animal hoarder
300
what type of medication is used in treatment?
antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
300
People with OCD can become distressed by owning a particular object. Hoarders are different. How would they become distressed?
What is through family/friends intervention or the resulting clutter of the collected objects
300
How many people with OCD compulsively hoard?
1 in 4
400
What are the three types of hoarding?
1. common hoarding behavior
2. diogenes syndrome
3. animal hoarding
400
what are 3 things one might do in cognitive behavior therapy?
• Explore why you feel compelled to hoard
• Learn to organize and categorize possessions to help you decide which ones to discard
• Improve your decision-making skills
• Declutter your home during in-home visits by a therapist or professional organizer
• Learn and practice relaxation skills
• Attend family or group therapy
• Be encouraged to consider psychiatric hospitalization if your hoarding is severe
• Have periodic visits or ongoing treatment to help you keep up healthy habits
400
The most common co-morbid disorder associated with hoarding (based on the powerpoint)
What is depression (53%)
400
What are some ways hoarding may affect one's life?
1. Health and safety threat (structural damage, fire, cleanliness)
2. Eviction (expensive and emotionally devastating)
3.Conflict with family/friends
500
What types of hoarding were shown in the clips?
animal hoarding and diogenes syndrome
500
what is the medication called that is typically used in treatment?
paroxetine
500
The main motivation for a hoarder to collect things
What is emotional attachment or attribution of high practical or intrinsical value to the saved items
500
What are some triggers to hoarding?
dementia,
psychiatric illnesses,
Previous period of poverty,
Traumatic event/loss (death of spouse or parent)