Safeguarding Partnership Board

Audience

Aim

Develop and strengthen skills and approaches to working with people who hoard. This workshop will explore the political, clinical and legal context related to hoarding in adult social care. It will outline research alongside, psychological and medical models that tell us why people hoard, as well as hearing from people with lived experience of hoarding.

Participants will use practice examples to examine hoarding through a risk perspective and rights-based approach and reflect on how their own biases may affect working with people that hoard. The workshop will provide helpful approaches to assessment, engagement and intervention in response to hoarding.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain what hoarding is, why people hoard, and the impact of hoarding.
• Outline the clinical, policy and legal context related to hoarding.
• Assess hoarding from a risk perspective and rights-based approach.
• Reflect upon inequity and intersectionality, recognising how their biases may affect working with people who hoard.
• Identify helpful approaches to assessment, engagement and intervention in response to hoarding.

Teams link: TBC

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