BEST PRACTICES / TOOLS
Proven methods and techniques that have helped people with hoarding behavior reduce acquiring, simplify sorting, and promote discarding.
BEST PRACTICEs / TOOLS
1 / Buried in Treasures: Non-Acquiring Help Card
The "Non-Acquiring Help Card" (from page 137 of the book 'Buried in Treasures') replicates the thought processes that many go through when deciding whether or not to purchase something. Keeping this in one’s wallet or purse can be helpful for reminding someone with hoarding behavior of the benefits of not acquiring.
2 / Motivational Exercise - Reasons to Declutter
An exercise from Buried in Treasures (Tolin et al., 2017) that encourages people with hoarding behavior to come up with their own motivational reasons to declutter.
3 / Obstacles in Decluttering and Their Solutions [MISSING]
Description coming soon.
4 / 200 Fun Things to Do Besides Shopping
A list of other activities that can replace the enjoyment that acquiring provides. Inspired by page 117 of Buried in Treasures.
5 / Diagram of an Acquiring Episode [MISSING]
Describe the item and include any relevant details. Click to edit the text.
6 / Buried in Treasures Exercise: Personal Goals
A worksheet that asks about one’s goals and motivations for working on their hoarding challenges.
7 / Buried in Treasures Exercise:
Clutter Visualization Exercise
An exercise for people with hoarding behavior that identifies the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs they have while actively looking at their clutter.
8 / Buried in Treasures Exercise:
Unclutter Visualization Exercise
An exercise for people with hoarding behavior that identifies the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs they have while picturing that their clutter in the room is gone.
9 / Buried in Treasures Exercise:
Treatment Contract
A contract of promises someone with hoarding behavior can make to themselves.
10 / Buried in Treasures Exercise:
A Non-Acquiring Shopping Trip [MISSING]
Describe the item and include any relevant details. Click to edit the text.