Full Course Description
Personality Disorder Workshop: The Complete Clinical Toolkit with DBT, CBT, Schema Therapy and More
Boundary management issues, transference and countertransference dynamics, intense emotions, and drama.
Clients with personality disorders can push you to confront your own limitations and triggers…even make you question your own abilities as a therapist.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
This 2-day training is specifically designed to provide you with the skills, techniques, and insights you need to tackle cases with clients who have BPD, narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality, and more.
You’ll join expert therapist Katelyn Baxter-Musser. She’s trained thousands of therapists on a variety of clinical topics – and she’s helped clients with personality disorders achieve positive treatment outcomes for over a decade.
And now she’ll share all she’s learned to provide you a framework so you can confidently and effectively treat these clients… whether you’re already working with them or tackling your very first case.
Katelyn will make treating clients with any of the 10 personality disorders feel more doable than you ever thought possible, complete with hands-on exercises and real case studies, highlighting the most effective and evidence-based clinical tools in the field.
When you register, you’ll get:
- Tools from CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy, and other top treatments
- Details on working with trust, attachment issues, and fear of abandonment
- Boundary management strategies
- Practical skills to improve regulation and expression of intense emotions
- Real-life case studies that make what you’ve learned more accessible
- Safety plans for self-harming, suicidality, and substance use
- And much more!
Don’t miss this chance to confidently work with personality-disordered clients.
Register now!
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify the core features and prevalence rates of the 10 personality disorders to facilitate accurate identification.
- Analyze the conceptual difference between personality traits and disorders to inform diagnostic assessments.
- Understand the impact of invalidating environments on the development and perpetuation of personality disorders.
- Evaluate the efficacy assessment tools, such as SCID-5 and MMPI-2, in their application to diagnosing personality disorders.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and traits associated with Cluster A, B and C personality disorders to support appropriate clinical interventions.
- Analyze the limitations of pharmacotherapies in consistently reducing the severity of BPD symptoms, considering findings on specific symptom domains.
- Develop personalized treatment plans that target specific emotional regulation strategy deficits using DBT.
- Formulate treatment plans that incorporate Schema Therapy techniques and principles for symptom reduction and well-being improvement.
- Assess the benefits of group psychotherapy including symptom alleviation and improvements in comorbid conditions.
- Implement a multimodal treatment approach that addresses complex symptomatology using CBT, DBT and Schema Therapy.
- Implement the use of safety plans in mitigating self-harming behaviors, suicidality, and substance use in Cluster B clients.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of considering age and developmental stage in the recognition and management of personality disorders to enhance patient care across diverse populations.
- Understand the significance of establishing and maintaining professional boundaries to safeguard against burnout and maintain ethical practice standards.
Outline
Personality Disorders in Clinical Practice
- Deconstructing misconceptions, professional biases, and stigma
- Prevalence and presentation
- Distinguishing between personality traits and personality disorders
- Co-occurring disorders, SUDs and suicidality
- Invalidating environments and their impact on PDs
- Exploring the link between attachment and personality disorders
- Neurobiology and personality disorders
- PDs across the lifepsan
- Risk and protective factors
Assessment Tools and Getting an Accurate Diagnosis
- Screening and assessment tools
- SCID-5
- Personality Disorder Interview-IV
- Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale
- MMPI-2
- Critical factors for accurate diagnosis
- Personality disorder cluster characteristics and core features
- Avoiding misdiagnosis: surface and core structure
- Culture influence and personality disorders
- Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders
Evidence-Based Treatments for Personality Disorders: How CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy and More Fit into Your Treatment Plan
- CBT for healthier coping strategies and problem-solving skills
- DBT tools to regulate emotions and improve interpersonal relationships
- Schema Therapy: challenging maladaptive patterns and core beliefs
- MI, EMDR and other modalities
- Medications and personality disorders
- Integrating treatment approaches for each cluster
- Research, risks and limitations
- Indications and contraindications
Cluster A Personality Disorders: Clinical Interventions for Treating Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Clients
- Empty chair techniques to help clients process anger
- DBT skills training for problem solving and assertiveness
- Exercises to help clients test their suspicions and question their thoughts
- Schema therapy techniques to help identify negative thoughts
- Group therapy to improve communication and interpersonal skills
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction as a mean of coping with stressors
- Overcoming transference reactions
Cluster B Personality Disorders: Best Practices for Treating Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic Clients
- Interventions to increase sense of personal responsibility for conduct
- Working toward appropriate sharing of feelings and vulnerabilities
- Managing deceptiveness in therapy
- Exploring history of conflict with authority and themes of abandonment
- Safety plan for self-harming, suicidality and substance use
- CBT strategies to shift from catastrophizing thoughts
- DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills for aggressiveness
- Schema therapy for distorted thoughts of grandiosity and entitlement
- Overcoming transference reactions
Cluster C Disorders: Working with Avoidant, Obsessive-Compulsive and Dependent Clients
- Keys to forming a therapeutic alliance
- REBT to identify and replace distorted perceptions
- Role playing relevant social skills
- Identify, explore and process thoughts of shame
- Working with hypercritical schemas
- Exposure therapy to reduce perfectionism
- Assess for clients’ dependency patterns
- Activities that boost self-esteem and encourage independence
- Therapist countertransference
Maintaining Professional Boundaries: Decreasing Burnout and Practicing Self-Care
- Common signs of burnout
- Setting boundaries
- Professional Quality of Life Scale
- 5-minute self-care exercises
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/08/2024
Borderline Personality Disorder and Traumatic Attachment
Do I trust or not trust? Do I love or do I hate? Do I live or do I die?
The client with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is caught in an internal battle rooted in their childhood traumatic experiences. Rather than experiencing others as a haven of safety, traumatized individuals with BPD are driven by powerful wishes and fears of relationship. Attachment failure is inevitable in trauma - resulting in intense emotions and impulsive behaviors that leave destructive imprints on their relationships.
When we understand the relationship between BPD and Traumatic Attachment disorders, we can transform our treatment options, strengthen therapeutic relationships, and improve the lives of our clients!
Purchase this seminar and you will learn:
- How BPD can be best understood – and treated - as a traumatic attachment disorder.
- Why traumatic attachment impacts the ability of individuals to tolerate their emotions and those of others.
- Techniques to help clients better manage their dysregulated emotional and autonomic states.
- New approaches and interventions from:
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Therapies
This seminar is for clinicians who want to open new ways of connecting and working with complex clients who struggle in managing their trauma and emotional responses.
Are you ready to reshape your BPD treatment strategies and improve your client outcomes? Are you ready for a less stressful approach to treating BPD?
Purchase today!
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the effects of trauma-related attachment on affect regulation in relation to assessment and treatment planning
- Distinguish symptoms characteristic of both borderline personality disorder and disorganized/unresolved attachment in clients
- Analyze the effects of disorganized attachment on clients’ interpersonal relationships
- Apply the Structural Dissociation model to the treatment of BPD
- Employ right brain-to-right brain techniques to help clients tolerate and benefit from psychotherapy
- Utilize body-centered and mindfulness-based interventions to help clients increase affect tolerance and decrease impulsive behavior
Outline
The effects of trauma on attachment formation in children
- When parents are ‘frightened and frightening’
- Trauma-related internal conflicts between closeness and distance
- Disorganized attachment status in adulthood
Understanding BPD as a trauma-related disorder
- Differentiating personality disorder symptoms from trauma responses
- Using psychoeducation to make sense of the symptoms
- Risks and limitations
Re-interpreting BPD as ‘Traumatic Attachment Disorder’
- How does it change the treatment?
- Transforming the focus from behavior change to trauma resolution
- Understanding splitting as dissociative, not manipulative
- Transference and countertransference implications
Stabilization of unsafe behavior
- “Waking up” the prefrontal cortex
- Increasing client ability to be mindful rather than reactive
- Re-interpreting impulsive behavior as fight/flight responses
- Helping clients dis-identify from suicidal beliefs and impulses
Addressing issues of clinging, separation anxiety and anger
- Working from a trauma-based parts perspective
- Facilitating internal attachment relationships
The use of mindfulness-based and body-centered interventions
- Learning to observe rather than react
- Using somatic interventions to calm the body and emotions
A “right brain to right brain” approach to healing attachment wounding
- Facilitating internal compassion
- Helping clients ‘repair’ the past rather than remember it
- Creating internal secure attachment
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
04/06/2021
Hiding in Plain Sight... Disarming the Covert Narcissist
Instead of the grandiosity and entitlement typically seen with overt narcissists, their covert counterparts may appear insecure and self-effacing. If overlooked, therapeutic progress can be very slow or may even stall altogether as the client remains stuck in a victim mentality.
Join Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW, author of the international bestselling book, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed, as she teaches you skills to assess and address issues of subjugation and self-sacrifice and facilitate a process for healing the underlying insecurities of the covert narcissist.
Program Information
Objectives
- Conceptualize covert narcissism and formulate a treatment plan for individual and couple.
- Identify patterns and activating conditions associated with covert narcissism.
- Link the current problems and address unmet emotional needs.
- Help clients let go of self-defeating life patterns and begin to develop adaptive responses.
- Address triggering conditions in the therapy relationship and fortify strategies for maintaining a sturdy and healthy adult mode.
- Apply effective schema therapy strategies for covert narcissism and for partners of covert narcissists, including: quieting and converting inner critic modes, mode dialogues, imagery rescripting, and behavioral pattern breaking.
Outline
Narcissism: Origins and Subtypes
- Early maladaptive schemas
- Unmet needs in overt and covert narcissism
- Schema therapy in treating narcissism
Covert Narcissism in Relationships
- Pseudo-vulnerability, victim mentality, and more
- Common responses to triggers
- Limitations of research and potential risks
Addressing Narcissism in the Treatment Room
- Defining success
- Implementing empathic confrontation
Covert Narcissism and Couples Therapy
- 5 critical questions
- How to shuttle diplomacy
- Photos, audio flashcards, and more
- Addressing resentment and regret
Target Audience
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
01/23/2024