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Before the television shows…before the clinical criteria…when there seemed to be no support…we have been here to help! Established in 2008, as a not-for profit organisation, HoardingUK is the only UK National Charity solely focused on supporting people impacted by hoarding behaviour.
“I’m never going back to living like this.”
How an innovative project is helping hoarders
by Amelia Hill, The Guardian.
The home of a person with a hoarding behaviour in Gloucester. Local authorities have no statutory duty to intervene, but many are increasingly trying to help. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian
After two years of planning, Gloucester city council launched its hoarding care and support initiative last April.
“We were wasting huge amounts of money by failing to deal with this group,” said James Dykes, a housing regulation, resettlement and projects manager at Gloucester.
“We had children being brought up in these homes. We had substantial numbers of residents trapped in hospitals and care settings because they couldn’t return to unsafe homes. We had families being made homeless. We had homes that had been previously cleared that were now just as bad as before – with all the risk of fires and infestations that brought.
“It was very expensive,” he said. “We had to come up with an entirely new way to help this group properly.”
Dykes brought in the national charity, Hoarding UK, to help develop a programme and train officers across multiple agencies. It created six support groups and set up teams offering personalised psychological support, decluttering and home safety improvements to residents….
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Is inflexibility in thinking a determinant for adhering to mental health therapies?
You’re invited to participate in research exploring how flexibility in thinking can influence well-being and adherence to therapies.
Shaunak Deshpande, Trainee Psychologist. Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Cohort 22). See our Research page.
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