Gregory Lester – 3-Day, Personality Disorders Certificate Course

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Gregory Lester – 3-Day, Personality Disorders Certificate Course

That feeling of anxiety and tension that you feel when you look at your calendar and see that client who is coming in today? This is the one you secretly fear but hope will be there.-They are waiting for you, but they won’t let you know. You might also be frustrated by a session that seems to go on forever, leaving you confused and unable to remember what happened.

How can you tell the difference between personality disorders and mental health symptoms? How do you conquer fear and doubt?-Doubts about diagnosing personality disorders?

This recording features 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. Being equipped with a toolkit of psychological interventions that will allow you to make clinical improvements, instead of putting out fires. You can feel confident in diagnosing personality disorders accurately and know that you are on the right track to 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 are used to diagnose, treat and manage personality disorders of all types.

Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-A certificate course is an absolute must-All clinicians should be trained!

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1. Communicate the distinction between personality disorder or psychiatric disorders as it relates in clinical treatment.
2. Discuss the underlying structure and clinical implications of disordered personality.
3. Assessment of personality disorders in order to clinically identify and then put into practice during a session.
4. Explain why the diagnosis is crucial for successful clinical treatment of clients suffering from personality disorders.
5. You can compare personality disorders to identify and inform your clinical treatment.
6. You will need to assess the major problems often caused by personality disorders in clients and then use clinical strategies for symptom management.
7. Use the following framework to manage and treat clients suffering from personality disorders.
8. Compare the outcomes of treatment for different intervention models.
9. Demonstrate how the intervention models can be used to improve the client’s functioning.
10. Find effective, targeted interventions that improve the treatment of personality disordered clients.
11. Clients with personality disorders can be treated using empirically supported treatment strategies.
12. Learn more about the management strategies for clients suffering from personality disorders.
13. Describe common co-Conditions that may arise in the context of assessment and treatment planning
14. For self-reduction, seek out clinical interventions-Do not engage in harmful behaviors
15. Recommendations to help clients with personality disorders manage their suicide risk
16. Differentiate personality disorders in children and adolescents to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
17. Adopt treatment strategies for personality disorders in couples and family therapy.
18. Summarize clinical strategies that can be used to help people with personality disorders and their significant others.

The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Effectiveness: Make sure to fill in any gaps and make a treatment Plan that works

• The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
  • Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
  • “Symptomatic” Conditions vs. “characteristic” Conditions
  • The fundamental structure of disordered personality
  • What makes personality disorder a chronic condition and why?
  • What personality disordered individuals think “it’s everybody else”
  • Why? “normal” It is difficult to talk with people who have personality disorders.
• The effects of a Personality Disorder
  • What personality disordered people do to others?
  • Life patterns that differ between the two “normal” “disordered” Personality
  • How can you predict the behavior of people with personality disorders?
  • 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 Personality Disorder
  • How diagnosis is everything in the treatment of personality disorders
  • Here are 5 steps to help you diagnose and recognize a personality disorder.
    • Effective, quick, and efficient identification
    • Clinical instruments and tests
• The Etiology of Personality Disorders Things to Consider in Treatment
  • One of the biggest mistakes clinicians make in etiology is
  • Interventions will be rendered impossible if etiology is misunderstood
  • What causes personality disorders? The definitive conclusion
• Treating vs. Managing Personality Disorders
  • Prediction “treatability” A personality disordered client
  • Important preparation is required to determine the best intervention approach
  • How to choose the right intervention approach
  • All interventions are effective when there is a structure to support them.
    • Two common techniques
  • Effective treatment goals for individuals in Cluster A, B, or C

Innovative and empirically validated intervention approaches in action: The first step-By-Step plan to implement the best treatment strategy

• Select Intervention Based On “Treatability” Niveau of Client
  • Optimal functioning
    • Mentalization-Base Treatment
    • Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
    • Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychology
    • Object Relations: Developmental Psychotherapy
  • Adequate functioning
    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
    • Schema-Base Treatment
    • Personality-Guided psychotherapy
  • Targeted behavior improvement
    • Tactical therapy
    • Strategic Therapy
    • Structural Therapy
  • Limitations and potential risks of psychotherapeutic methods
• 4-Effective Step-by-Step Approach Personality Treatment of Disorders
  • Engage in a treatment relationship
  • Use two basic treatment techniques
  • Choose the right treatment category
  • Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
• 3-Effective Step-by-Step Approach Personality Disorder Management
  • Foundation to prevent disordered behaviour
  • Implement contingency
  • Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
• 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
  • Analyse of the Behavioral Chain
  • Mentalizing interpretations
  • Problem-Problem solving

Special Issues Personality Disorders

• Interventions for co-Existing Conditions
  • A typical co-Common disorders in the 10 subtypes
  • Sequencing interventions for co-Prevalent conditions
  • Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders

• Crisis Management: Self-Harm and Suicide Interventions
  • Fundamental misunderstandings
  • Motivations and physiological effects
  • Interventions to reduce/eliminate self-Harmonization
  • Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
  • Interventions for suicidal thoughts and persistent suicidal behavior
  • Acute suicidality: Treatment options
• Unique Considerations
  • Personality Disorders in children, adolescents
    • Intervention modifications
  • Family and couple therapy interventions
    • Interventions require special procedures
  • Partnering with someone who is personality disordered
    • They can find ways to stay out of trouble
    • Coaching for effective management
    • Self-Caring for loved ones