This free online course teaches the knowledge and skills needed to diagnose and treat individuals with Hoarding Disorder. This course offers a comprehensive understanding of hoarding disorder, characterized by persistent difficulty in discarding possessions due to a perceived need to save them. It explores its prevalence, diagnostic criteria, and treatment. Gain insights into its characteristics, onset, and risk factors, and learn to assess the disorder across different life stages. Enroll to enhance your knowledge and become a more effective health professional.
| Course Category | Healthcare, Health Care |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Recognize the six DSM-5 criteria necessary to diagnose Hoarding Disorder • Discuss at least six factors associated with the onset and course of Hoarding Disorder • Distinguish four challenges commonly encountered by clinicians who work with clients diagnosed with Hoarding Disorder • State the most common characteristics of hoarders and the differences between impulsive buying and hoarding • Outline the six diagnostic criteria for hoarding disorder • Identify common hoarding assessment tools that can be completed by the clinician • Discuss why the treatment of hoarders is made particularly difficult • Identify the strategies involved in the implementation of Steketee & Frost’s (2007) CBT for hoarding • Recall the ethical considerations and challenges in the treatment of hoarding disorder • Identify various life events or medical conditions that are likely to impact the severity of hoarding symptoms • Identify five assessment measures and 5 theory and evidence-based interventions used in this context |
| Course Code | 6969 |
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