Trash or Treasure: Assessment, Risk Management & Intervention for Hoarding

About This Event

This interactive and stimulating 1 day online workshop will introduce new and experienced clinical and non-clinical workers to hoarding behaviours and assist them to:

• Understand hoarding behaviours as a distinct category of mental health concern, and recognise the various contributing factors.
• Identify a range of screening and assessment tools for hoarding behaviours and squalor
• Apply the H.O.A.R.D.I.N.G. Self-Reflective Practice model to guide their thinking about how and why they might engage in an intervention.
• Appreciate the inherent risks of hoarding and squalor environments and apply appropriate risk mitigation and management strategies to their practice.
• Identify, understand and apply a range of brief interventions to support hoarding behaviours, including realistic intervention planning, respectful decluttering, SMART goal setting, motivational interviewing, and successful change planning. Participants will also learn skills to support emotionally dysregulated clients.

Participants will be provided comprehensive digitised resources and offered the opportunity to problem solve challenging presentations in practice.

The H.O.A.R.D.I.N.G Model is a unique model developed by Monica through both extensive practice experience and research. The H.O.A.R.D.I.N.G. Model is a self-reflective framework which poses questions for workers engaging in hoarding interventions to consider. The framework is intended to guide workers in their thinking about how and why they might engage in an intervention. The framework considers a range of factors including organisational considerations, worker considerations, client considerations, available resources, risk concerns, and ethical considerations.

Workshop Details:

The workshop runs online from 9:00am - 4:30pm (QLD Time) via Microsoft Teams. Meeting details will be sent to participants by email approximately 48 hours prior to the workshop. Participants will be provided an electronic copy of the workshop slides as well as comprehensive worksheets and handouts. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during the workshop.

Who Should Attend:

The workshop is suitable for anyone who supports people who present with hoarding, clutter, excessive acquisition of possessions or difficulty discarding possessions. Participants do not require any prior clinical experience or therapy/counselling training. Participants do not need to work in a clinical setting.

Important Information About Registrations:

Registrations are non-refundable, however if you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person. Please email monica@flourishtherapyandconsulting.com.au if you need to transfer your registration.

Questions?

Further questions can be emailed to monica@flourishtherapyandconsulting.com.au

Monica Lord is the owner of Flourish Therapy & Consulting, the founder of the Australia Centre for Hoarding, Squalor and Clutter, and a passionate, enthusiastic Accredited Mental Health Social Worker.

Monica holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Griffith University, a Master of Youth Mental Health from University of Melbourne and is a current PhD Candidate at Griffith University. Monica has 15 years direct clinical experience working with children, young people, women and families, and has spent 8 years running her own private practice on the Gold Coast. Monica is also a lecturer in Social Work at Griffith University.

In 2014, Monica was granted project funding to improve how workers engage people with hoarding behaviours. "Trash or Treasure" was developed in 2017 from the continued identified community need for quality training in working with hoarding behaviours, and to date, more than 800 participants have completed the training across Australia. Monica is a well regarded training facilitator and has developed and facilitated a number of other professional development programs. Monica is also the founder of the Australian Centre for Hoarding Squalor and Clutter which is launching in 2024.