Full Course Description
Module 1 | Part I: Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on course recording is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve the client's level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and family therapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in the treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine the category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
Module 1 | Part II: Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on certificate course is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
Module 2 | Part I: Advanced Intervention Approaches in Action
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on certificate course is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
Module 2 | Part II: Advanced Intervention Approaches in Action
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on certificate course is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
Module 3 | Part I: Special Issues with Personality Disorders
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on certificate course is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
Module 3 | Part II: Special Issues with Personality Disorders
You know that feeling of tension and anxiety that creeps in after looking down at your schedule and you see THAT client coming in today? The one you secretly dread and hope is a no-show, though here they are, ready and waiting to see you. Or what about the agony of a session that seems to go in circles, leaving you frustrated with no idea what just happened?
How do you differentiate between mental health symptoms and a personality disorder? How do you get past the fear and self-doubt of diagnosing a personality disorder?
In this recording, renowned personality disorders expert, Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. The empowerment of being equipped with a psychological toolkit of practical interventions that allow you to make clinical gains, rather than putting out fires. The confidence of making an accurate personality disorder diagnosis and knowing you are on the right path with treatment.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-edge techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage all 10 personality disorder types.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on certificate course is a must-have training for all clinicians!
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
- Communicate the difference between personality disorder and psychiatric disorder as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Articulate the underlying structure of disordered personality and its clinical implications.
- Assess individuals with personality disorders to clinically distinguish and put to practical use in session.
- Communicate why diagnosis is the critical element to effective clinical treatment for clients with personality disorders.
- Categorize different types of personality disorders to accurately identify and inform clinical treatment interventions.
- Evaluate significant problems typically created by clients with personality disorders and utilize clinical strategies for symptom management.
- Implement the framework for successful treatment and management of clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate intervention models as they relate to treatment outcomes.
- Demonstrate the most effective aspect of the intervention models to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine effective targeted interventions to improve treatment outcomes with personality disordered clients.
- Implement empirically validated treatment interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Appraise the management models of interventions for clients with personality disorders.
- Assess common co-occurring conditions in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Determine clinical interventions for reduction of self-harm behaviors.
- Recommend interventions to manage suicide risk in clients with personality disorders.
- Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Adapt treatment strategies for working with personality disorders in couples and familtherapy.
- Summarize clinical strategies for working with the significant others of individuals with personality disorders.
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Fill in the missing pieces and create a treatment plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” conditions vs. “characteristic” conditions
- The underlying structure of disordered personality
- What makes a personality disorder a chronic condition?
- Why personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” talking with personality disordered people is ineffective
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disordered people create difficulties for themselves and others
- The difference in life pattern between “normal” and “disordered” personality
- How to predict the behavior of individuals with personality disorders
- The type of chaos created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Why diagnosis is EVERYTHING in treatment of personality disorders
- 5 steps to identify and diagnose a personality disorder
- Effective, brief, and rapid identification
- Tests and clinical instruments
- Why the Etiology of Personality Disorders Matters in Treatment
- The single biggest mistake clinicians make regarding etiology
- Why misunderstanding etiology will disable interventions
- What causes personality disorders - the definitive conclusion
- Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” of a personality disordered client
- Critical preparation to determine the proper intervention approach
- How to choose an intervention approach
- The structure that makes all interventions effective
- Develop effective treatment goals for Cluster A, B, and C personalities
Advanced and Empirically Validated Intervention Approaches in Action: A step-by-step plan to implement the most appropriate treatment strategy
- Select Intervention Based on “Treatability” Level of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Based Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Object Relations Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Based Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and risks of the psychotherapeutic approaches
- 4-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Treatment
- Engage the treatment relationship
- Apply two fundamental treatment techniques
- Determine category of treatment
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to inhibit disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-solving process confrontations
Special Issues with Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-occurring Conditions
- Typical co-occurring disorders for the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-occurring conditions
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce or eliminate self-harm
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions for chronic suicidal ideation
- Treatment approaches for acute suicidality
- Unique Considerations
- Personality disorders in children and adolescents
- Intervention modifications
- Couples and family therapy interventions
- Special procedures for interventions
- Working with significant others of a personality disordered individual
- Methods to help them stay out of difficulties
- Coach for effective management
- Self-care for significant others
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/09/2018
BONUS: Treating Personality Disorders: Advances from Brain Science and Traumatology
Clients with personality disorders—narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, sociopathic—often have profound traumatic childhoods, which leave them without a solid inner core from which to function. Often “nudged” into treatment by others, including the law, their inability to trust and their need for power make forming a therapeutic alliance seemingly impossible. They come armed with defenses developed at very early ages that are designed to ensure their survival by protecting their fragility. In this workshop, you’ll explore:
- How to develop a therapeutic alliance in the face of mistrust, control issues, and rock solid defenses while staying out of power struggles
- How to work with the pathological dissociation typically present in personality disordered clients
- Practical, effective interventions informed by neuroscience that help clients safely manage frightening symptoms, including violence and emotional meltdowns, and develop healthier boundaries and a more differentiated sense of self
Program Information
Outline
- Personality disorders in the US, prevalence and personal history
Risk factors, therapeutic options
- Diagnostic criteria for personality disorders
Cluster characteristics
Developmental characteristics
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Differential diagnostic criteria and defining characteristics
Pathological v. healthy narcissism
- Grandiose v. vulnerable narcissism
- Continuum of disturbance and loss of self
- Borderline Personality Disorder
Differential diagnostic criteria and defining characteristics
Boundary setting and treatment approaches
Attachment and therapeutic relationship considerations
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
Differential diagnostic criteria and defining characteristics
Victim v. perpetrator symptom expression
- Psychopathy and personality characteristics
- “No Solid Self”
Complex therapeutic history
Common underpinnings to varied personality diagnoses
Relationship characteristics
- Developmental processes underlying personality disorders
Family systems
Neurophysiological systems
Determining level of intervention
Self-regulation, positive regard, mirroring
Creating attachment and inserting self into therapy
Importance of non-verbal communication
Language selection and techniques
- Identifying meaning of disordered behavior and emotional regulation
- Therapist self-regulation, necessity and strategies
- Pictoral Coherence technique
- “Undissociation” technique
- General principles for therapeutic intervention
Objectives
- Utilize clinical strategies to develop a therapeutic alliance in the face of mistrust, control issues, and rock- solid defenses while staying out of power struggles
- Apply effective tools for working with pathological dissociation in therapy
- Utilize clinical interventions informed by neuroscience to alleviate symptoms of personality disorders, including violence and emotional meltdowns
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers
Copyright :
03/25/2017