Resources

When I started my organizing business in 2003, I didn't know the best questions to ask new clients or how to record the information they shared with me. Through years of trial and error, I created these forms which I've been using successfully in my business for many years. To save you the time and effort I went through, I'm now offering them to new organizers.

Clutter Hoarding Scale


www.nsgcd.org/resources/clutterhoardingscale.php

Measuring Squalor


www.squalorsurvivors.com/squalor/measuring.shtml

Hoard House

Compulsive Clutter in NYC

Multimedia project that explores the impact of hoarding on hoarders, psychologists, cleanup specialists, and social workers for whom hoarding is a defining phenomenon.
www.hoardhouse.com/

My Mother’s Garden

An award-winning film that documents a 61-year-old woman’s daily life as a hoarder, filmed by her daughter, director Cynthia Lester.
www.mymothersgardenmovie.com

Packrat

by Kris Montag

www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/410_prat.php

Possessed

by Martin Hampton

Hoarding Task Forces and Community Related News

www.childrenofhoarders.com/coh57.php

Hoarders.Org

www.hoarders.org/

San Francisco Bay Area Internet Guide for Extreme Hoarding Behavior

Eastern Time Zone

The Anxiety & Stress Management Institute
770-953-0080

Bio Behavioral Institute
(516) 487-7116

The Center for Emotional Health of Greater Philadelphia, LLC
856-220-9672

Institute of Living

Anxiety Disorders Center

860-545-7685


NeuroScience, Inc.
703.787.9090

Central Time Zone

Lakeside Center for Behavioral Change
95

Boston University School of Social Work Hoarding Project
http://www.bu.edu/ssw/research/hoarding/

Children of Hoarders.
http://www.childrenofhoarders.com/bindex.php.

Hoarding in Your Community. Fairfax County, Virginia.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/hoarding/


International OCD Foundation – Compulsive Hoarding Website.
http://www.ocfoundation.info/hoarding/

Squalor Survivors
http://www.squalorsurvivors.com/index.shtml

Buried In Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding
 by David F. Tolin, Ph.D., Randy O. Frost, Ph.D. 
Oxford University Press, 2007.


Changing For Good by J. O. Prochaska, J. C. Norcross & C. C. DiClemente.

(Google their names for more information)


Rosemary Bakker, MS, ASID

Jerome Bubrick, Ph.D.

David Dia, Ph.D., LCSW

Randy Frost, Ph.D.

Fugen Neziroglu, Ph.D.

Steven Phillipson, Ph.D.

Renee Reinardy, Psy.D.

Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.

Gail Steketee, Ph. D

David Tolin, Ph.D.

Jose Yaryura-Tobias, M.D.

Tamara L. Hartl, PhD

Michael A. Tompkins, Ph.D

Online Support Groups

Online Self-Help Support Groups for OCD Hoarders

http://www.ocfoundation.info/hoarding/support-groups/online-self-help-su...

Children of Hoarders

A group for/to support those who grew up in a hoarding environment and/or currently have a relative who hoards.

If you’ve been watching the A&E TV series “Hoarders”, you may have noticed that there are numerous mental health professionals working with the individuals in the Season 1 documentaries. According to emails I’m receiving, the initials following the doctors’ names are confusing. Several viewers are wondering what the difference is between a Ph.D, M.D., or MSW. And, what exactly is CBT? Hopefully, this will help clarify some of the confusion, chaos or conundrum about credentials.