CPD Accredited Trauma Informed Approaches

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CPD Accredited Trauma Informed Approaches to Hoarding Behaviours

Certain behaviours, such as hoarding, are often a way of coping with, and trying to heal, distress. This course will provide understanding on the link between Trauma and Hoarding Behaviour and how you can best support clients without triggering re-traumatisation.

The CPD Accredited Trauma-Informed Approaches to Hoarding Behaviours has been delivered to over 3000 health and social care professionals across the UK, and has now been taken up by the Chartered Institute of Housing as part of their training provision.

The course considers hoarding behaviour in a holistic and therapeutic context, exploring alternatives to house clearances and eviction, allowing the learning to understand what a trauma informed approach is, the key part it plays and how to add this strategy into professional practice when support clients on their journey with this incredibly complex and often misunderstood mental health condition.

It is aimed at practitioners looking to expand their existing knowledge on hoarding further to be able to understand the impact trauma alone has on individuals, allowing practices to be adapted to avoid further harm and re-traumatisation.

Meet the Trainer

This course was developed, and is delivered by, our director Kayley Hyman, a specialist practitioner and researcher with lived experience of hoarding. Kayley has channelled her personal insight into developing the first therapeutic support service for individuals who hoard in South Wales, and is currently undertaking a PhD researching hoarding service provision across Wales.

Kayley sits on the board of Cardiff and Vale Mental Health Charity and is a member of the UK National Steering Group for Hoarding, and was awarded the Women in Housing Award in 2023 for her contribution to hoarding research and practice.

Alongside her academic work, Kayley is a consultant for Cardiff University, acting as the Public Involvement Lead for PhD research into Hoarding Disorder and self-neglect among older men. She also established the first All-Wales Multi-Agency Hoarding Task Force, bringing together housing, health, and social services to improve support for individuals at risk of eviction due to hoarding behaviours.

What will you learn?

Trauma-Informed Approaches consider that our “symptoms” and behaviours are completely normal responses to distress and trauma, rather than medicalising or pathologizing them, compared to general psychiatry which relies on the framing of normal trauma responses as abnormal or disordered.

Individuals with hoarding behaviour have often already faced a lot of trauma and adversity and need a safe space to explore their experience, this course will allow practitoners to understand the trauma, emotions and attachments clients handle by holding onto items and provide the knowledge to adapt support strategies that avoid invalidating client coping methods or causing re-traumatisation.

Trauma looks different to every single person, and the response does not have to make sense to anyone else, the approach outlined in this training embeds the importance of a person lead support strategy that is tailored to the individual clients requirements and details how to put this into practice.

Background to trauma in hoarding cases

The diagnostic criteria of hoarding and where it sits in the DSM.
What trauma-informed services look like.

Compassionate Intervention

How to start compassionate conversations with someone who is hoarding.
The psychology and neurology behind hoarding behaviours.

Treatment Pathways

An exploration of current treatment pathways and supportive interventions
Hoarding and harm reduction.

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