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Antisocials, Borderlines, Narcissists & Histrionics: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine how the changes with the DSM-5® impacts diagnosis and treatment of the Cluster B Personality Disorders.
- Identify and diagnose clients with antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic and borderline Personality Disorders to effectively inform your choice of treatment interventions.
- Utilize case studies to differentiate symptom overlap, effective treatment and emotional management of each Cluster B Personality Disorders client type.
- Manage the manipulative and potentially violent behaviors with your clients diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder in session to make therapeutic progress.
- Implement CBT techniques to clarify behaviors, values and goals with clients diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
- Incorporate techniques to decrease explosive emotions, self-harm tendencies and cravings for chaos for clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Utilize MI and DBT techniques with clients diagnosed with Histrionic Personality Disorder to help manage cognition and improve emotional regulation.
Outline
The Personality Mystique
- DSM-5® criteria
- Treatment errors and misdiagnoses
- Core and/or surface structure and the role of the clinical disorders
- Differential diagnoses
- Five central components to accurate diagnosis
- Insulate your clients against risk factors
Antisocial Spectrum
- Oppositional defiance to psychopath
- Attachment
- Manage and avoid in-session violence and threats
- Secondary gains, suicide attempts and threats
- Overcome blockades – manipulation, threats, power-struggles and more
- Symptom presentation and risk analysis to self and other
- Interpersonal theory techniques for compliance
- Balance transference and countertransference
- Lessen destructive behaviors
- Cognitive-behavioral experiential techniques to lessen pathology
- Psychotropic medications
- Case studies and treatment exercises
Narcissistic Spectrum
- Narcissistic presentation and the environmental context
- Attachment and pathological narcissism
- Tackle the veneer of perfectionism
- Overcome blockades – power struggle, absent empathy, excessive criticism
- The narcissistic/borderline client
- Interpersonal strategies for empathy engagement
- CBT techniques to clarify behaviors, values and goals
- Tactics to avoid arguing
- Motivational Interviewing to overcome resistance
- Prevent sabotage
- Build a sense of true self
- Case studies and treatment exercises
Histrionic Spectrum
- Moody to excited to histrionic: the erratic client
- Attachment
- Coquettish behavior, avoidance drama, inauthenticity
- Dangers of the histrionic client
- Link between emotions and behavior
- Interpersonal strategies to encourage expression of true self
- Enhance sense of self and lessen the “spotlight”
- Motivational Interviewing techniques
- DBT techniques
- Interpersonal strategies to build positive relationships
- Strengthen self-initiative and independent action
- Psychotropic medications
- Case studies and treatment exercises
Borderline Spectrum
- Symptom presentation along the spectrum
- Attachment
- Feeling identification and behavioral control
- Manage self-harm and suicidality
- Rage-ful outbursts, self-mutilation, boundary violations
- Create stability and build therapeutic collaboration
- Develop true sense of self and lessen maladaptive need for attention
- Facilitate pattern recognition
- Lessen the impact of maladaptive patterns
- Underlying wishes and fears
- Build DBT core mindfulness skills
- DBT techniques to dissolve the distraction and focus on the “genuine relationship”
- Calm interpersonal upheavals with DBT
- DBT emotion regulation skills
- Psychopharmacology and applicability
- Case studies and treatment exercises
Please Note: PESI is not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.
Copyright :
12/08/2016
Personality Disorders: Unavoidable challenges and effective solutions
Program Information
Objectives
- Diagnose different personality disorders, and separate comorbid diagnoses and disorder overlap
- List and summarize the ethical pitfalls, legal liability, and effective risk management
- Describe the key components of CBT, IPT, DBT, IRT, and other treatment applications, including interventions, working models, and the integration of therapies
- Identify and block maladaptive behaviors in your client
- Explain how to increase therapist confidence and success when addressing and treating complex personality disorders
- Describe the etiology of various personality disorders and how this can better assist with treatment planning and reduction of symptoms
Outline
Where Did This Come From and What is it?
- Personality and how it becomes aberrant
- Development, stability, and change in personality disorders
- The big questions and concerns with personality disorders
- DSM-5® and alternatives to the current DSM-IV-TR® classification model
Foundations and Challenges of Personality Disorders “Every Psychopathology is a “Gift of Love”
- Cluster A
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Personality Disorders and Comorbid Treatment More Than Meets the Eye
- Identification of the most challenging personality disorders
- Core and/or surface structure and the role of the clinical disorders
- Therapeutic collaboration with those with personality disorders
- Maladaptive patterns of personality disorders
- Interpersonal patterns and presentation in treatment
- The microcosm of therapy and personality disorders
Unique Ethical Challenges in Working with Personality Disorders
- Ethical complaints and how to manage them
- Who? Sue me? – Risk of litigation
- Competence and boundaries of competence
- Liability and risk management
- Staying out of trouble
Efficacious Treatment with Personality Disorders
- What research is telling us
- What our experience is telling us
- Not even they want to be here – working with mandated clients
- Working with what works
Evidence-Based Approaches and Their Application to Personality Disorders
- Where do we start? The best utilization of evidence based treatments
- Slippery slope or a piece of cake; increase your clients collaboration
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Interpersonal Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy
“In My own Skin” – Skills to Prevent Compassion Fatigue
- Finding great resources, general practitioners and psychiatrists
- Support systems, inside and outside the field
- Building our own emotional competency
- Metacognitive strategies for wellness and professional and personal success
- Where do we go from here?
Copyright :
12/06/2013
Significance of Attachment in the Treatment of Personality Disorders
OUTLINE
Attachment and Personality
- Attachment Beginnings
- Intrapersonal & interpersonal components
- The attachment/personality connection
Attachment and Personality Disorders
- Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal
- Dependent, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive
- Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, and Borderline
Include Attachment Components in Treatment
- Elements of attachment treatment approach
- Flipping expectations
- Building collaboration
- Coping patterns
- Paradoxical interventions
OBJECTIVES
- Utilize attachment style to move your clients forward in therapy.
- Identify attachment patterns in each personality disorder and how it’ll manifest in your client.
- Learn how to implement techniques to address attachment patterns and pathology in your clients.
Program Information
Objectives
- Utilize attachment style to move your clients forward in therapy.
- Identify attachment patterns in each personality disorder and how it’ll manifest in your client.
- Learn how to implement techniques to address attachment patterns and pathology in your clients.
Outline
Attachment and Personality
- Attachment Beginnings
- Intrapersonal & interpersonal components
- The attachment/personality connection
Attachment and Personality Disorders
- Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal
- Dependent, Avoidant, and Obsessive-Compulsive
- Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, and Borderline
Include Attachment Components in Treatment
- Elements of attachment treatment approach
- Flipping expectations
- Building collaboration
- Coping patterns
- Paradoxical interventions
Copyright :
08/01/2014
The Narcissism Epidemic: Consequences and Treatment Techniques
OUTLINE
Causes of narcissism
- What is narcissism?
- Genetic, environmental, and cultural causes
Consequences and correlates of narcissism
- Materialism
- Vanity
- Entitlement
- Antisocial behavior
How to help narcissists and those around them
- Treating narcissists: Getting them to recognize the downsides of narcissism
- Advising the partners, children, parents, and co-workers of narcissists: Strategies including avoidance, flattery, and reframing messages to show the benefit to the narcissist
OBJECTIVES
- Discuss the types of factors that can cause narcissism
- Describe strategies for the treatment and support of the narcissist
Copyright :
10/04/2015