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Digital Seminar

Personality Disorder Workshop: The Complete Clinical Toolkit with DBT, CBT, Schema Therapy and More

Faculty:
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT
Duration:
12 Hours 09 Minutes
Copyright:
08 Aug, 2024
Product Code:
POS059908
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

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!

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Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepepesi.com


Objectives

  1. Identify the core features and prevalence rates of the 10 personality disorders to facilitate accurate identification.
  2. Analyse the conceptual difference between personality traits and disorders to inform diagnostic assessments.
  3. Understand the impact of invalidating environments on the development and perpetuation of personality disorders.
  4. Evaluate the efficacy assessment tools, such as SCID-5 and MMPI-2, in their application to diagnosing personality disorders.
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and traits associated with Cluster A, B and C personality disorders to support appropriate clinical interventions.
  6. Analyse the limitations of pharmacotherapies in consistently reducing the severity of BPD symptoms, considering findings on specific symptom domains.
  7. Develop personalised treatment plans that target specific emotional regulation strategy deficits using DBT.
  8. Formulate treatment plans that incorporate Schema Therapy techniques and principles for symptom reduction and well-being improvement.
  9. Assess the benefits of group psychotherapy including symptom alleviation and improvements in comorbid conditions.
  10. Implement a multimodal treatment approach that addresses complex symptomatology using CBT, DBT and Schema Therapy.
  11. Implement the use of safety plans in mitigating self-harming behaviours, suicidality, and substance use in Cluster B clients.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
    • Standardised 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 catastrophising 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

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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