title: Assessment and treatment of hoarding disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a brief selective review of the current literature regarding Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition Hoarding Disorder, with an emphasis on its associated risks, assessment and management approaches.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hoarding disorder is defined by clear diagnostic criteria. It can be a severe and disabling disorder that can pose significant safety risks to the individual and to others. Management is often challenging, due to the poor level of insight that people with hoarding disorder often have. Psychological approaches tend to adapt cognitive-behavioural approaches, in order to specifically target areas such as impaired decision-making and motivation. Several trials of pharmacological agents have been conducted, but the limitations of these studies call for further research.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, and; Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Nepean Hospital, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Penrith, NSW, Australia vlasios.brakoulias@sydney.edu.au.
authors.forename: Vlasios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brakoulias
authors.affiliation: Senior Clinical Psychologist and Clinic Co-ordinator, Nepean Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Penrith NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Milicevic
mesh_terms: D000067836:Hoarding Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans
keywords: diagnosis; hoarding disorder; obsessive-compulsive disorder; review; treatment