Join us for this 4-hour online workshop facilitated by Monica Lord | Flourish Therapy & Consulting.
This training is designed for new and experienced community sector workers who want to build their skills in supporting people living with hoarding behaviours.
Outcomes:
Understand hoarding behaviours as a distinct category of mental health concern, and recognise the various contributing factors.
Identify a range of screening and assessment tools for hoarding behaviours and squalor.
Appreciate the inherent risks of hoarding and squalor environments and apply appropriate risk mitigation and management strategies to their practice.
Identify, understand, and apply a range of brief interventions to support hoarding behaviours, including realistic intervention planning and respectful decluttering.
Participants will also learn skills to support emotionally dysregulated clients.
Participants will be provided with comprehensive digitised resources and offered the opportunity to problem-solve challenging presentations in practice.
Pricing: $80 per session for members and $110 per session for non-members.
Spaces are limited, so if you are unable to attend, please email Community Industry Group @admin@cigroup.org.au or call us on (02) 4256 4333 as soon as possible. This training comes with a non-attendance guarantee of $50.00.
About the Facilitator
Monica Lord is the owner of Flourish Therapy & Consulting, the founder of the Australia Centre for Hoarding, Squalor and Clutter, and a passionate, enthusiastic Accredited Mental Health Social Worker.
Monica holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Griffith University, a Master of Youth Mental Health from University of Melbourne, and is a current PhD Candidate at Griffith University. Monica has 15 years direct clinical experience working with children, young people, women, and families, and has spent 8 years running her own private practice on the Gold Coast. Monica is also a lecturer in Social Work at Griffith University.