Severe domestic squalor /

"Should you intervene in the life of the 48-year-old woman whose dwelling is stuffed with accumulated rubbish and who will not let anyone help get rid of it - or the 78-year-old surrounded by putrescent food and filth - or the 'animal accumulator'? Cases of severe domestic squalor (so...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Snowdon, John, Halliday, Graeme, Banerjee, Sube
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge medicine (Series)
Temas:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hygiene.
Hoarding
Hoarding Disorder > psychology
Activities of Daily Living
Environment
Household Work.
Hygiene
Hoarding Disorder > complications
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Névroses obsessionnelles.
Activités de la vie quotidienne.
Travail domestique.
Hygiène.
housekeeping.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Compulsive Behavior.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Defining squalor and hoarding
  • 2. A review of the literature on squalor
  • 3. Hoarding: its relevance to severe domestic squalor
  • 4. Animal hoarding
  • 5. Assessment of squalor and hoarding
  • 6. Interventions in cases of squalor
  • 7. Use of the law when intervening in cases of squalor
  • 8. Guidelines for intervention
  • 9. Ethics of intervention
  • 10. There is much to be done
  • Appendix
  • Index.

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