Essay Instructions: Research Paper on diagnostics on compulsive hoarding disorder
- Hoarding will in all likelihood be considered a separate disorder when the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is next released in 2012. Planning for the diagnostic criteria are now underway. The task with this paper is to evaluate the diagnostic status of hoarding and create a write-up that could be used for the DSM manual.
Thus, I would like the paper to be focusing on the diagnostic criteria of Hoarding and the issue of
- whether they have insights or not
- make a clear distinguish between OCD vs. Hoarding
- definitely include these: ability to discard, acquisition, health risk (both to themselves and public), impairment, insight, level of clutter, and etc.
I will give you several sources to include through here and if you cannot find those sources then I'll try to make scans and send them to you!
1. Frost, R. & Gross, R. (1993). The hoarding of possessions. "Behaviour Research and Therapy, 31," 367-382
2. Tolin, D.F., Frost. R.O., Steketee, G., Gray, K.D., & Fitch, K.E. (2008). The economic and social burden of compulsive hoarding. "Psychiatry Research, 160," 200-221
3. Saxena, S., Ayers, C.R., Maidment, K.M., Vapnik, T., Wetherell, J.:. Brstritsky, A. (2011). Quality of life and functional impairment in compulsive hoarding. "Journal of Psychiatric Research," 45, 475-480
4. Tolin, D.F. & Villavicencio, A. (2011). Inattention, but not OCD, predicts the core features of hoarding disorder. "Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49" 120-125
5. Tolin, D.F., Meunier S.A., Frost, R.O. & Steketee, G. (2011). Hoarding among patients seeking treatment for anxiety disorders. "Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25," 43-48
6. Anderson, S.W. Domasio, H., & Domasio, A.R. (2005). A neural basis for collecting behaviour in humans. "Brain, 128," 201-212
7. Steketee, G., Frost, R.O., Tolin, D.F., Rasmussen, J. & Brown, T.A. (2010). Waitlist-controoled trial of cognitive behavior therapy for hoarding disorder. "Depression and Anxiety, 275," 476-484
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