Other resources
Anon Hoarding disorder for mental health professionals.
International OCD Foundation. More information about treatments than on other sites
Anon Hoarding Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Council. Written for council staff and public. Long- keep scrolling down. Also listed in ‘Housing’ section (viewed 1/7/2024)
Anon WG Hoarding response organisation has a 10 steps to safety video developed with experts and has a page about harm reduction, (viewed 1/8/2024)
Anon (2016) Research into Hoarding Final Report(96 pages).RRR Consultancy Social Research Team. Includes detailed literature review, case studies and recommendations (p 68 of PDF)
Anon Adult social care practitioner guidelines Vn 1 33. Self-neglect and hoarding. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (viewed 7/3/2024).
Anon (2015) Hoarding and how to approach it: guidance for environmental health officers and others Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. In-depth report
Anon Hoarding disorder Oxford Health Specialist Psychological Intervention Centre. Describes their service, including listing specific CBT issues. Liaises with local services. (viewed 1/6/2024).
Anon (2023)Tameside Guide to Working with People who exhibit hoarding behaviours Result of Tameside Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board’s workshop of multi-agency workers and people who hoard. News story in Social Work Today; Developing a multi-agency approach to working with adults who hoard 27/9/23.
Anon Self-Care for Hoarding Support Workers Clouds End. One of several items in blog(viewed 1/7/24)
Anon What is animal hoarding and why is it harmful to animals? RSPCA viewed 1/10/24.
Barnet, D (2016) Hoarding and self-neglect– what social workers need to know. Community Care. August.
Brown, F et al (2014) Developing an approach to working with hoarding: space for social work practice: Social Work in Action, 26(4), pp.211-224. Abstract.
High,S(2020,2021)P3 Specialist Hoarding Support Service. Report, end of project report
Phillips, K et al (2023) Hoarding Disorder Short, free article with references
Databases
PubMed is free.
APA PsycNet database indexes more psychology journals than Medline. There is no free access to Psychinfo, but the smaller PsychArticles has free access to abstracts.
NHS and staff/students at university may have access to the full version, and to the articles
Conferences
New perspectives on hoarding behaviours from psychology, law & social care 08 February 2024 presentations:
There is an (edited) video, plus the links below to slides
1. Neave.N The Hoarding Research Group & UK Hoarding Partnership
2. Spencer-Lane,T Self-neglect, hoarding, executive functioning and the law (Government Legal Department; Kingston University)
3. Owen,J et al Decluttering support for people with hoarding behaviours: A service and intervention built on trust
4. Wainman,S : Collaboration, technology, and support in hoarding
5. Nicole Steils Social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding among older people: What works in practice
Edited audio . There are also links to each presentation’s slides from the title link above. ‘Making Research Count’ the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London. 08 February 2024
Tinlin -Dixon,R(2019) Understanding the person behind the possessions; beliefs in hoarding disorder Poster BABCP Annual Conference 2019
Tompkins,M Helping people who hoard; alternatives to nagging,pleading and threatening Webinar for families, but more like one for professionals. International OCD Foundation . (viewed 1/10/2024)
Bibliographies
2 below are a mixture of references for professionals and for people who hoard,friends/families. They were written in US, so some of the websites are not relevant to UK
Hoarding Reference Materials Saginaw Hoarding Task Force
Masshousuing hoarding bibliography Go to hoarding section and select
Massachusetts Hoarding Resources Directory (download) Compiled by leading experts.
Some journal articles have long lists of reference eg
Science Direct search ‘hoarding‘ articles likely to be in Medline. The advantage is that articles which are not free have ‘snippets’ and lists of references. Can limit the search to free full text.
Lin,N et al (2023) Hoarding Disorder: The Current Evidence in Conceptualization, Intervention, and Evaluation Psychiatr Clin North Am Mar;46(1):181-196. Epub 2022 Dec 13. Link is to publisher’s page as it includes 117 references. Not free.
Tolin,D (2015) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Hoarding Disorder; a meta-analysis. J.Depress Anxiety. Mar;32(3):158-66. Extensive reference list. Many are more than 10 years old, so would be missed in a search limited to that.
Hoarding disorder references 