NEW Online Course

Responding to Hoarding Behaviours in Housing and Community Settings

✔ Understand the behavioural drivers behind hoarding
✔ Respond with confidence in complex and high-risk cases
✔ Apply ethical, person-centred, trauma-informed interventions
✔ Bridge the gap between theory and frontline practice

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LEARNING FRAMEWORK

The four essential elements of hoarding academy’s curriculum are:

  1. Objectives (what you will learn)

  2. Content (the subject matter)

  3. Experience (teaching methods), and

  4. Evaluation (how learning is assessed)

These components are interconnected - forming a complete learning framework.

SKILLS ANDKNOWLEDGE

Key topics covered in our courses include:

  • Psychology and aetiology of hoarding;

  • Assessing risks and issues;

  • Ethical and proportionate practice;

  • Recommended therapeutic interventions (person-centredness, trauma-informed, harm reduction, strengths-based, motivational), and

  • Behaviour change science (Capability, Opportunity and Motivation for Behaviour Change (COM-B), Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), Transtheoretical Model for Change (TTM)).

Scientific evidence, innovation and creativity shape the way we work.

Image copyright - hoarding academy: Transdisciplinary Dialogue World Cafe Event, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2024