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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.
Course Summary
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.
Clouds End is privileged to have partnered with the incredible organisation Holistic Hoarding to offer this training.
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CPD Accredited
Providing industry-recognised training for mental health professionals and organisations.Supported Over 1,000 Individuals
Through our tailored one-to-one sessions, support groups, and community-focused initiatives.Serving the UK
Based in Solihull, we deliver our services nationwide, reaching individuals, families, and agencies with practical solutions.Upcoming Training Dates
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.
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Compassionate Intervention
- How to start compassionate conversations with someone who is hoarding.
- The psychology and neurology behind hoarding behaviours.
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Treatment Pathways
- An exploration of current treatment pathways and supportive interventions
- Hoarding and harm reduction.
Stay Curious, Stay Informed, Keep Learning
Supporting clients takes ongoing learning, empathy, and real-world experience, attending this course is just the start. We encourage practitioners to stay curious, stay engaged, and keep building confidence in supporting those affected by hoarding.
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