Trauma Informed Approaches to Hoarding

This course will provide understanding on the link between Trauma and Hoarding Behaviour and how you can best support clients without triggering re-traumatisation.
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"Your home.
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Delivered to over 5000 health and social care professionals across the UK

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CPD Accredited

What will you learn?

Individuals with hoarding behaviours 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 also embeds the importance of a person lead support strategy that is tailored to the individual clients requirements and how to put this into practice.

Background to Hoarding

  • 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.

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.

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