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Friday, July 31 • 9:15am - 10:45am
Case Management: An Intervention Strategy for Addressing Hoarding

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Increasingly, case management models are being used by communities seeking to better address the problem of hoarding. In this presentation, Dr. Sheila Woody will describe hoarding cases that come to the attention of public agencies. This description will include information on housing type, conditions of the home and characteristics of the residents  Dr. Christiana Bratiotis will present data characterizing agency and community case management models and methods used in practice to address hoarding. Dr. Jordana Muroff will present data from a pilot study examining the prevalence of hoarding behavior and its relationship to pest management in public housing. Jesse Edsell-Vetter will present outcomes from three years of data collected through Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership’s intensive case management program for hoarding intervention. Dr. Randy Frost will provide a response to these presentations and discuss the merits of community-based hoarding interventions.
Speakers
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Jesse Edsell-Vetter

Hoarding Intervention Coordinator, Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
Jesse Edsell-Vetter is the Hoarding Intervention Coordinator for Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP). Since developing MBHP’s successful intervention model, he has served as a resource to Boston-area legislators, government, human service agencies and organizations, educational... Read More →
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Christiana Bratiotis, PhD, LICSW

Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Christiana Bratiotis, Ph.D., LICSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Boston University in the interdisciplinary Social Work and Sociology program. During a Post-doctoral fellowship at Boston University School of... Read More →
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Randy Frost, PhD

Dr. Randy O. Frost is the Israel Professor of Psychology at Smith College. He has published widely on hoarding and related phenomena. He has co-authored several books on hoarding including Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide; Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive... Read More →
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Jordana Muroff, PhD

Dr. Jordana Muroff is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, Clinical Practice Department and is a licensed social worker with extensive clinical experience. Her research and practice interests are in CBT for children and adults with anxiety... Read More →
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Sheila Woody, PhD

Professor, University of British Columbia
I am a psychologist who studies hoarding. Most of my current research focuses on community-based responses to hoarding, and I also have another line of research that tries to understand aspects of thinking that might contribute to hoarding behaviour.

Friday July 31, 2015 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Commonwealth Ballroom C
  Hoarding, Advanced