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Comparison of Peer Facilitated Support Group and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Hoarding Disorder
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Peer Facilitated Support Group for Hoarding Disorder. Completed, enrolled 323 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
This study proposes to compare two forms of treatment for Hoarding Disorder (HD), a common and impairing neuropsychiatric syndrome that has a profound impact on the lives and functioning of individuals, families, and society. Specifically, we will compare a novel community-based group treatment led by individuals from the community who are not mental health professionals to the current standard of care treatment for Hoarding Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, conducted by psychologists in a group setting. We hypothesized that both treatment types will be similarly effective in reducing hoarding severity.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Group therapy over approximately 20 weeks, based on a structured manual adapted from the individual CBT workbook for hoarding by Steketee and Frost (2006). Each session will be 2 hours in length and consists of weekly check-ins, psychoeducation about hoarding, developing understanding and awareness of one's hoarding symptoms and patterns, behavior modification, cognitive restructuring, goal-setting, motivational enhancement, in vivo and imaginal exposure for discarding and acquisition, executive skills training (organization, sorting, planning, decision-making, problem-solving, etc.), guidelines on establishing "clutter buddies", and relapse prevention. Groups will be led by clinical postdoctoral psychology fellows in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF.
Fifteen sessions of peer facilitated, group support, over the course of 20 weeks, based on a structured manualized approach (Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding). Each session will be 2 hours in length. In this model, two trained peers, usually, but not necessarily, with personal lived experience of hoarding, will guide the group chapter by chapter through the Buried in Treasures manual.