{"id":9004,"date":"2011-11-17T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:00:33","slug":"bu-today-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/bu-today-hoarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Christiana Bratiotis and Dean Gail Steketee Featured in BU Today Article on Hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ssw\/files\/2011\/04\/hoarding_handbook_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7081\" title=\"hoarding_handbook_cover\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2011\/04\/hoarding_handbook_cover-421x636.jpg\" alt=\"hoarding_handbook_cover\" width=\"152\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2011\/04\/hoarding_handbook_cover-421x636.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2011\/04\/hoarding_handbook_cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>Christiana Bratiotis, postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor of clinical practice, and Dean Gail Steketee were featured in <em>BU Today<\/em> for their co-written book, <em>The Hoarding Handbook<\/em>. The book was written specifically for people who find hoarders and includes practical tips on how to interact with them. Bratiotis, in particular, has become a &#8220;de facto hotline&#8221; for those who come across hoarders and receives as many as &#8220;a dozen calls a week,&#8221; according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2011\/a-how-to-handbook-for-people-who-find-hoarders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christiana Bratiotis, postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor of clinical practice, and Dean Gail Steketee were featured in BU Today for their co-written book, The Hoarding Handbook. The book was written specifically for people who find hoarders and includes practical tips on how to interact with them. Bratiotis, in particular, has become a &#8220;de facto hotline&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7427,7440],"tags":[5035,7273,7271,5038,5039,7272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80598,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions\/80598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}