Judith Kolberg - Books
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Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What to Do About It Paperback - September 28, 2021 - by Regina F Lark, (Author), Judith Kolberg (Contributor)
Emotional labor is the unnoticed, unwaged, unwritten work women do in the home and in the paid workforce. It includes everything from assuring socks match to coping with a virus, schooling, a job and family life all under one roof. Largely invisible, the mental load of emotional labor weighs heavily on the shoulders of women. Dr. Regina Lark, the author of Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What to Do About It is a feminist historian with years of professional organizing experience in homes, offices and storage spaces. This book examines women’s relationship to emotional labor from early American history to the COVID-19 era. Emotional labor is generally thought to be women’s work, whether at home or in the office, but it is actually not gender specific. It’s just, well, work!
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Creating Your Digital Estate Plan - Kindle Edition – Second Printing by Judith Kolberg
If you die or are incapacitated this book will guide your executor and POA to the management of your passwords, social media, and personal assets.
What Every Professional Organizer Needs to Know About Chronic Disorganization – January 1, 2008 by Judith Kolberg
What Every Professional Organizer Needs to Know About Chronic Disorganization is a radical guide to innovative organizing techniques effective with people who experience long-term, severe disorganization. The booklet explains what chronic disorganization is and how a professional organizer, the individual themself or a loved one can truly help.
Conquering Chronic Disorganization 2nd Edition Paperback – June 15, 2007 by Judith Kolberg
Chronic disorganization is disorganization that undermines a person's quality of life and recurs despite traditional self-help efforts. Conquering Chronic Disorganization is filled with real-life stories of people who used simple, innovative and fun organizing methods proven in the field to end clutter, mismanagaed time and paper pile-ups in the home or office. Featured Book of the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life: Strategies that Work from an Acclaimed Professional Organizer and a Renowned ADD Clinician Paperback – September 20, 2016 by Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau
Acclaimed professional organizer Judith Kolberg and Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, renowned ADHD clinical psychologist, are back with an updated edition of their classic text for adults with ADD. Their collaboration offers the best understanding and solutions for adults who want to get and stay organized. Readers will enjoy all new content on organizing digital information, managing distractions, organizing finances, and coping with the "black hole" of the Internet. This exciting new resource offers three levels of strategies and support: self-help, non-professional assistance from family and friends, and professional support; allowing the reader to determine the appropriate level of support.
What Every Professional Organizer Needs To Know About Hoarding
– September 1, 2008 by Judith Kolberg
Compulsive hoarding is a complex disorder. This book provides professional organizers, social workers, mental health practitioners and anyone who encounters people who hoard, with the basics about the disorder. You ll learn the psychological underpinnings and the organizational challenges of people who acquire and save so excessively that they undermine the health, safety and comfort of their own home. This is a hopeful book that examines creative collaborative approaches including combinations of organizing and therapy, self-help efforts, support groups and other means for making a difference in the life of a person who hoards. The Foreword is written by Dr. David Tolin, a foremost authority on the topic. The author is Judith Kolberg, the founder of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization. If you work with, love or are a person who hoards, this book is for you.
Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural Or Unnatural Disaster – June 15, 2005 by Judith Kolberg
The world is a more dangerous place than it used to be. Organize For Disaster closes the gap between awareness to prepare and actual implementation by providing organizing tools like shopping lists of provisions; storage ideas; sample family communication, evacuation, and escape plans, checklists and tips. It is current with information about terrorism as well as natural disasters. An excellent ready-reference, Organize is also a 'good read' with first-hand accounts of disaster survivors and advice from disaster experts. Perfect for today's busy families.
Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What To Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff are Endless But Time is Not! – April 15, 2013 by Judith Kolberg
We live in the Era of Endless, confronted by infinite information, incessant interruptions, constant distractions, unending work, and boundless stuff. All this endlessness butts up against the one thing that remains intractably finite time. In this book you will find brand new, simple, and effective organizing strategies and solutions appropriate to the Era of Endless. Manage the excesses and downside of endless information, interruption, work, and stuff! And reclaim your time!
Judith Kolberg - Translated Books
FRENCH EDITION:
Compulsive hoarding disorder - What Every Professional Organizer Needs To Know About Hoarding Translated in the French Canadian language.
Trouble d'accumulation compulsive - Ce que les organisatrices professionnelles doivent savoir: personnes dans le domaine de la santé mentale, premiers répondants, organismes communautaires et membres de la famille ont besoin de ce livre aussi! Paperback – Jan. 1 2023
L'accumulation compulsive est un trouble complexe. Ce livre fournit aux organisatrices professionnelles, aux personnes dans le domaine de la santé mentale, les premiers répondants, les organismes communautaires ainsi que les membres de la famille et à tous ceux qui rencontrent des personnes qui ont un trouble d'accumulation compulsif, les bases de ce trouble. Vous apprendrez les fondements psychologiques et les défis organisationnels des personnes qui acquièrent et conservent de manière si excessive qu'elles compromettent la santé, la sécurité et le confort de leur propre maison. Il s'agit d'un livre plein d'espoir qui examine des approches collaboratives créatives, y compris des combinaisons d'organisations et de thérapies, des efforts d'auto-assistance, des groupes de soutien et d'autres moyens de faire une différence dans la vie d'une personne qui accumule compulsivement. L'avant-propos est rédigé par le Dr David Tolin, une autorité reconnue dans le domaine. L'auteur est Judith Kolberg, fondatrice du "National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization". Si vous travaillez avec, aimez ou êtes une personne qui accumule, ce livre est pour vous.
JAPANESE EDITION:
What Every Professional Organizer Needs to Know About Chronic Disorganization Translated in the Japanese language.
What Every Professional Organizer Needs to Know About Chronic Disorganization – January 1, 2008 by Judith Kolberg
What Every Professional Organizer Needs to Know About Chronic Disorganization is a radical guide to innovative organizing techniques effective with people who experience long-term, severe disorganization. The booklet explains what chronic disorganization is and how a professional organizer, the individual themself or a loved one can truly help.
CZECHIAN EDITION:
ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life - Translated in the Czech language.
A guide for chaotic adults, or how to live with attention disorders
October 15, 2018 by Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau
The English original was translated by Zuzana Turková .
The number of children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD, ADHD) is rapidly increasing these days. Previously, however, not so much attention was paid to these disorders, so there are many adults living among us who, although suffering from attention disorders, have never been diagnosed and thus struggle with their difficulties all their lives on their own. And it is for them that the book Handbook for Chaotic Adults is intended. The manual for chaotic adults was written by a strange pair of authors at first glance, but in this case it makes perfect sense: Judith Kolberg, an expert in maintaining order, and Kathleen Nadeau, a clinical psychologist specializing in attention disorders. People with ADD often have a big problem with various instructions on how to establish and maintain order in their lives, because they are not designed specifically for people with attention disorders: they need simple solutions and more structure, on the contrary, detailed instructions and complex systems to maintain order, they are guaranteed to fail. Many manuals also assume that anyone can implement the systems presented in them on their own, without the support of other people. And that's where this book differs from others: it offers special procedures tailored to people with ADD. It also brings stories of people with attention disorders, in which it is shown what difficulties they had to deal with, as well as procedures that worked for specific individuals. In addition, the book takes ADD into account not only in the advice itself, but also in the graphic design, which is intentionally as clear and straightforward as possible. The book therefore rests on several basic pillars: Standard methods of establishing order and order do not work for most adults with ADD. Those that help balance ADD symptoms, such as forgetfulness, distractibility, or difficulty using time effectively, work. The best attitude, important for bringing order and order, is to work with ADD, not fight it. The key to successfully managing the difficulties associated with ADD is "SPS" - Strategy, Support and Structure The text also deals with the three levels of support structure and emotional difficulties associated with AD(H)D, the importance of fluency and simplification, the analysis of daily stressors, difficulties with decision-making, the distinction between the importance of decision-making and perfectionism, compensation for boredom, the tendency to addictions, the importance of prioritization . The last part is dedicated to specific organization at different levels – things, time, information, finance and digital space Judith Kolberg is the founder of the Institute for Disability Solutions. She has written several books on non-traditional methods of maintaining order, translated into many world languages. Kathleen C. Nadeau, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist focusing on women and girls with attention deficit disorders. The English original was translated by Zuzana Turková .
DUTCH EDITION:
Squall Press is pleased to announce the publication Opgeruimd Leven Met ADHD, the Dutch edition of ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life, 2nd edition available on Amazon
Opgeruimd leven met ADHD: Praktische organiseertips en -strategieën (Dutch Edition) Paperback
October 15, 2018 by Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeau
How do you deal with distractions? How do you get your finances in order? How do you organize your life more efficiently? How do you make the right choices on the internet and social media? What's the biggest challenge for adults with ADHD? Reduce the daily chaos, put things in order, arrange everything, set priorities. The new, greatly expanded edition of this practical book teaches you strategies to better organize your life and reduce your stress.
See that book with ADHD on the cover? That’s my book in Dutch at a bookstore in the Netherlands. The image was sent to me by Ingrid van der Locht, one of the most veteran organizers in that country. Thanks Ingrid!
SPANISH EDITION:
Squall Press is pleased to announce the Spanish edition of Conquering Chronic Disorganization. To order Conquistando La Desorganizacion Cronica - available on Amazon
Conquistando La Desorganización Crónica (Spanish Edition)
September 15, 2018 by Judith Kolberg (Author), Ignacio Ramírez Eguiarte (Translator)
¿QUÉ ES LA DESORGANIZACIÓN CRÓNICA? Es aquella que se suscita cuando una persona ha padecido el desorden en su entorno por más de 6 meses, a pesar de sus intentos de organizarse, y que se prevé que persista en el futuro.