Center for Wellness Training
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Working with People who Hoard
Saturday, May 17, 2025
8:30AM* – 3:30PM* | Location: Online*
CEUs: 6 Credits
Professionals: $120 Student: $60
*All trainings will be via Zoom and on Eastern Daylight Time in the U.S.A.
DETAILS FOR THE TRAINING
Working with People who Hoard
Hoarding behavior for a long time was listed under Obsessive Compulsive Behavior but is now a
separate diagnosis in both the DSM V and the ICD 10. This workshop is for you if you want to develop your ability to assess and work with people who hoard or know someone who is hoarding.
Course Overview
This one-day online workshop is for health professionals who want to learn how to assess and treat people who hoard. Using a wellness perspective, the workshop relies upon a motivational, client-centered approach to changing hoarding behavior. Assessment tools and workbooks will be reviewed.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
1. Discuss the reasons why hoarding was received as a separate diagnostic category in the
DSM V.
2. Summarize basic assessment tools and strategies associated with hoarding therapy.
3. Assess levels of hoarding and recognize differences in cluttering and hoarding as well as
motivations to change.
4. Apply counseling techniques in working with clients who hoard.
5. Explain how to recruit and train a team to assist in cleaning a hoarder’s house.
6. Apply techniques to maintain a supportive but neutral role in the process of treatment in
hoarder homes.
7. Compile a contract and plan of action for an intervention at a hoarder home. Discuss
goals to achieve safety, sanitation, and functionality.
8. Describe how to terminate or accept limits.
9. Conduct a self-assessment of your ability to handle a chaotic situation outside an office
setting.
Who Should Attend: Students, therapists, social workers and other mental health professionals.
Location: A Live Virtual Training via Zoom
Trainer: Caroline H. Sparks, PhD is a psychologist with a history of working with people who hoard. Her current practice includes treatment for people who have obsessive compulsive shopping and hoarding problems. Her expertise in population and behavioral health has led her to developing this workshop, where she continually applies her expertise in wellness approaches to behavior change.
Continuing Education Credits: 6 CEUs
- This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #886756514-9857) for 6 continuing education contact hours.
- Your Health Concierge, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Your Health Concierge, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- This training is approved for a total of 6 entry-level continuing education contact hours. 4.5 have been approved for advanced-level credit by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC).
- Approved by NBCC (ACEP No. 7162.) for 6 Credit Hours. Your Health Concierge, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
FAQs
What’s the refund policy?
- Cancellation 30 days prior to the training = 100% refund
- Cancellation two weeks prior to the training = 50% refund
- Cancellation anytime after two weeks prior to the training = NO REFUND but payment can be applied to a future training
- If Your Health Concierge, Inc, needs to cancel the training, attendees will have the option of receiving 100% refund or applying their payment to a future training.
The Center for Wellness Training of Your Health Concierge, Inc., offers wellness trainings for psychologists, social workers, counselors, health educators, and the general public to develop new knowledge and acquire or hone skills related to the practice of prevention and wellness.
Our goal is to promote public health practice grounded in the latest research in health and mental health. Our trainers are at the forefront of research and practice in prevention. Our master trainers include public health professionals with backgrounds in behavior change, coaching, public health, ethics, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social work.
We train leaders who want to improve their ability to use positive approaches to assist people to maintain a state of wellness in their lives. Our approach is motivational. Our trainings are designed to show health professionals how to use best practices from recent research on maintaining or restoring wellness in individuals, workplaces, and communities.
Our training uses a small group, face-to-face approach to improving public health trainees practice and skills, allowing for time to discuss principles of wellness and to practice the skills we teach so that people who attend our trainings leave prepared to work with individuals, in workplaces and community organizations. We have a special emphasis on preventing and postponing chronic conditions in people as well as in helping them plan for how well they want to age.
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Meet Our Trainers
Our trainers are certified experts and seasoned practitioners committed to empowering you with tools and techniques for mental and physical wellness. Whether you’re a professional seeking to enhance your skills or an individual striving for personal growth, our trainers are here to guide you every step of the way.
Caroline H. Sparks, PhD, is a clinical and community psychologist licensed in Maryland. She is a practicing therapist specializing in applying a wellness model that uses motivational approaches to personal behavior change. She also developed trainings on motivation, wealth management and so on, for the company’s Wellness Training Center. Dr. Sparks is a Professor Emerita of The George Washington University.
Joseph Tonning, MD, MPH, RPh. is a board-certified primary care physician and a licensed pharmacist. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the University of Georgia followed by a Residency in Hospital Pharmacy at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Tonning completed his Doctor of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and then completed his medical residency, Masters in Public Health, and clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.