Current thinking on hoarding behaviour

NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit

At this webinar two leading experts in their respective fields will be speaking about current thinking on hoarding behaviour.<a href="https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-salkovskis" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paul Salkovskis</a> is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford and at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Paul&#x27;s main area of research and clinical work is in the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders in general, and more specifically in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic and Agoraphobia, and health anxiety. He has contributed to psychological understanding and treatment in all of these areas. He has been working on the understanding and treating of hoarding from the perspective of it being a “final common pathway” rather than a specific psychiatric disorder.<a href="https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/mr-tim-spencer-lane-938/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tim Spencer-Lane</a> is a lawyer specialising in mental capacity, mental health and social care law. At the Law Commission, Tim led the review of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and adult social care law. He currently works for the Government Legal Department (DHSC) where he advises on mental health and mental capacity law and lectures at Kingston University on the best interests assessor and adult safeguarding courses.<h3>Recent case at the Court of Protection</h3>We were prompted to arrange this webinar by the recent judgment at the Court of Protection, <a href="https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2022/39.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AC and GC (Capacity: Hoarding: Best Interests) [2022] EWCOP 39</a> (see our summary on the <a href="https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/socialcareworkforce/2022/09/27/items-and-belongings-a-hoarding-case-at-the-court-of-protection/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Health &amp; Social Care Workforce blog</a>).<h3>Related studies at the NIHR Health &amp; Social Care Workforce Research Unit</h3><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/self-neglect-and-hoarding-among-older-people" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding among older people: What works in practice?</a> (2020-2022)<a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/decluttering" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Decluttering the homes of people with hoarding behaviours: Local authority commissioning, professional practices, and user experiences</a> (2022-2023)Both of these studies were funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research. The earlier one incorporated an evidence review (May 2022) by Nicole Steils and colleagues: <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/what-do-we-know-about-hoarding-behaviour-and-treatment-approaches-for-older-people" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What do we know about hoarding behaviour and treatment approaches for older people?</a>G﻿o to <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/current-thinking-on-hoarding-behaviour" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the event page</a> on the NIHR Health &amp; Social Care Workforce Research Unit website.

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