3/5/2013
Joani Hardy, CPO®
www.joanihardy.com
585-750-2418
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Insight to the Disorder of “Hoarding”
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What is Your Professional Role
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Tools, Tips and Strategies
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The acquisition of, and failure to discard, a
large number of possessions that appear to
be useless or of limited value
Living spaces sufficiently cluttered so as to
preclude activities for which those spaces
were designated
Significant distress or impairment in
functioning caused by the hoarding
-Dr. Randy Frost & T. Hartl, 1996
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History
Challenges – Increased By Age
Assessing
Clutter-Hoarding Scale (ICD)
Health & Safety
Scope of Professional Position
Develop a Team
Encourage and Empower
Respect
Client Based
Time
Language
Organize First
Ways to Remember
Donations
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Buried In Treasures: Tolin, Frost & Steketee
Digging Out: Tompkins, Hartl
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding:
Neziroglu, Bubrick, & Yaryura
Stuff: Frost & Steketee
Conquering Chronic Disorganization:
Kolberg
Institute For Challenging Disorganization
(ICD) www.challengingdisorganization.org
National Association of Professional
Organizers (NAPO) www.napo.net
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