Developing Your Personal Hoarding Model
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Chapter 3 encourages clients to learn to develop their own model for understanding why hoarding and acquiring symptoms developed and persist. The formulation includes personal and family vulnerability factors, cognitive processing problems, reasons for saving possessions, and positive and negative emotions that encourage hoarding and acquiring behaviors. A brief Thought Record helps identify problematic thinking about saving and acquiring. A graphic illustration of a hoarding model and instructions for developing a functional analysis of acquiring behavior are provided. Homework strategies are included.