Occupational Therapy for Persons with Hoarding Disorder.
Transform Your Practice with Evidence-Based, Client-Centered Solutions
This self-paced online course is designed specifically for occupational therapy practitioners who want to move beyond frustration and uncertainty.
You’ll learn to:
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Access Key Assessment Tools:
Confidently select and interpret standardized measures like the Hoarding Rating Scale, Clutter Image Rating, and ADL-H to clarify your client’s unique challenges and track progress over time. -
Learn how to implement Effective Interventions:
Discover how to organize and implement trauma-informed, client-centered strategies—including environmental modifications, ADL/IADL retraining, and harm reduction—that respect your client’s readiness and values. -
Understand how to Solve Barriers to Change with Motivational Interviewing:
Gain practical skills to address ambivalence, perfectionism, and decision-making paralysis using proven motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral techniques. -
Organize and Schedule Sustainable Routines:
Learn to build maintenance plans, prevent relapse, and engage family or community partners to support long-term functional gains and safety.
Why Choose This Course?
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Tackle the most common barriers OTs face: poor insight, emotional resistance, comorbidities, and systemic challenges.
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Access real-world strategies, visual tools, and step-by-step frameworks to make progress possible—even in the most complex cases.
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Build confidence in collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and supporting clients through setbacks, stigma, and slow progress.
Empower your clients to reclaim their homes and daily lives—one step at a time.
Enroll now and transform your approach to hoarding disorder with practical, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions.
The Home Accessibility Therapist LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity approval ID# XXXX. This distance learning activity is offered at .5 CEUs, intermeadiate level, service delivery and foundational principles. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Course Content
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Introduction to Hoarding Disorders
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A review of Assessments OTPs can use
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Reviewing general interventions for persons with hoarding disorders
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Occupational therapy interventions for persons with hoarding disorder.
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Maintenance programs and preventing recidivism
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Wrapping it all up: Part of the Interdisciplinary Team.
Expected Learning outcomes:
At the end of this 5 hour course you will be able to:
1) Order, classify, and differentiate between standardized assessment tools (e.g., Hoarding Rating Scale, Clutter Image Rating, ADL-H, UHSS) and describe analysis of their findings to identify the impact of hoarding disorder on occupational performance, safety, and daily functioning.
2) Describe and categorize intervention strategies—including environmental modification, ADL/IADL retraining, and harm reduction—according to client goals, readiness for change, and psychosocial needs, applying trauma-informed and collaborative approaches.
3). Solve case-based challenges and predict potential barriers to change by applying motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral techniques to address ambivalence, challenge maladaptive beliefs, and facilitate sustainable behavioral change in clients with hoarding disorders.
4). Describe how to organize and schedule maintenance routines, relapse prevention strategies, and collaborative partnerships with families, caregivers, and multidisciplinary teams to support long-term functional gains and community participation for individuals with hoarding disorder.
Immediately Available Clinical Strategies
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Occupation focused assessments
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Direct link between assessment results and therapy goals
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Intervention strategies
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Maintenance strategies
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Key course components:
- Online learning at your own pace
- Access to our support team if you have questions or need help
- To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to pass a 50-question multiple-choice exam at 80%
- You will be awarded a certificate for 5 hours on contact time or 0.5 AOTA approved CEU units.
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