Tag: hoarding
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From Assessment to Action: The OT’s Clinical Map for Hoarding Disorder
You are standing in the doorway of a client’s home. Every surface is covered. The kitchen table has not been visible in years. There is a narrow path through the living room. The smell is difficult. Your client is watching you from across the room, arms crossed, eyes guarded. You are an occupational therapist. And…
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Reframing Hoarding as Occupation: What Occupational Therapists Bring That Nobody Else Can
Ask most clinicians what they think when they hear “hoarding disorder,” and the responses tend to cluster around the same themes: clutter, safety risk, resistance, and difficulty. The mental image is a home filled floor to ceiling with accumulated objects — a problem to be solved, removed, or cleared. But what happens when you bring…