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Personality Disorders Certificate Course: Advanced Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
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
BONUS: Treating Personality Disorders: Advances from Brain Science and Traumatology
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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