Working with people who hoard
Working with people who hoard
Working with people who hoard
Join a workshop that will support practitioners to develop and strengthen their skills and approaches to working with people who hoard.
This session will explore the political, clinical and legal context related to hoarding in adult social care. It will outline research alongside, psychological and medical models that tell us why people hoard, as well as hearing from people with lived experience of hoarding.
Participants will use practice examples to examine hoarding through a risk perspective and rights-based approach and reflect on how their own biases may affect working with people that hoard. The workshop will provide helpful approaches to assessment, engagement and intervention in response to hoarding.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Explain what hoarding is, why people hoard, and the impact of hoarding.
- Outline the clinical, policy and legal context related to hoarding.
- Assess hoarding from a risk perspective and rights-based approach.
- Reflect upon inequity and intersectionality, recognising how their biases may affect working with people who hoard.
- Identify helpful approaches to assessment, engagement and intervention in response to hoarding.
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Audience Types
Social workers
Senior practitioners
Practitioners
Professional Standards
PCF - Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Intervention and skills
Working with people who hoard: Frontline Briefing (2017)
The NHS estimates that between two and five per cent of adults in the UK may have symptoms of a hoarding disorder. Social care practitioners may have a role to play in supporting people who hoard. This work can be complex, and may necessitate a multi-agency response.
Working with people who self-neglect: Practice Tool (2020)
This resource aims to support adult social care practice with people who self-neglect through lack of self-care and/or lack of care of the domestic environment where risks to health or wellbeing are extreme and there is reluctance to take action to mitigate those risks.