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• Extend your knowledge of personality disorders, assessment, and effective intervention
• Discover the most effective tools in the treatment of "overlapping" and "interlocking" disorders, comorbid conditions, and "untreatable" cases
• Examine specialized and advanced topics in the treatment of personality disorders, including crises, liability, suicidality, and self-care of the practitioner
• Develop tools to perform integrated and flexible brief, short-term, and extended treatments
• Recognize how to diagnose and treat personality disorders in couples and families
• Outline diagnosis and treatment options for personality disorders and comorbid conditions in children
• Identify expanded methods for managing the behavior of personality disordered individuals
• Examine the latest data on prescribing and the use of medications with personality disorders

THE EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS

• The five essential elements of all treatment approaches
• The integrated “Fluid” model
• The use of short-term dynamic formats
• The use of short-term supportive formats
• The use of short-term cognitive-behavioral formats

 

THE EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES

• Techniques for increasing motivation for change
• Techniques for building observing ego capacity
• Techniques for constraining drama
• Techniques for building problem-solving abilities
• Techniques for eliciting new behaviors
• Techniques for developing new traits

 

 

 

EXPANDING BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

• How to take, and keep, control of the relationship
• How to break up old behavioral and relationship patterns
• How to elicit new behaviors

 

TREATING PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

• How personality disorders differ in children and adolescents
• Diagnosing personality disorders in children and adolescents
• Common comorbid conditions
• Child and adolescent treatment formats
• Child and adolescent treatment techniques

 

TREATING DISORDERED COUPLES

• Distressed vs. conflictual couples
• Working with “interlocking” disorders
• Conjoint vs. individual treatment approaches

 

TREATING DISORDERED FAMILIES

• Personality disorders and family therapy
• Disordered families vs. disorders in families

 

MEDICATIONS

• What the research on the use of medications shows
• What medications have been shown to—and shown not to—accomplish
• When to avoid medications altogether
• How to know if medications are working

 

SPECIAL TOPICS AND “HOW-TOS”

• Group treatment
• Crises
• Liability and safety issues
• Suicidality

 

PRACTITIONER ISSUES

• Self-care
• Counter-transference
• Managing personality disorders in personal life

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Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


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• Anyone dealing with difficult cases, including:
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Occupational Therapists
• Pharmacists
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• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Alcohol and Drug Counselors
• Nurses
• Home Health Care Personnel
• Nursing Home Personnel
• Psychiatric Hospital Staff
• Primary Care Personnel
• Hospice Care Workers
• Developmental Disability Counselors
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