Skills for Working with the Personality Disordered Client
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$60.00
$60.00
per item
Tuesday October 25, 2016
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours: NBCC + NCSAPPB approved CEUs
Another workshop in the “Nothing But Skills” series… so come prepared to work one-on-one with your neighbor as well as practice in small and large groups with the skills necessary to support the personality disordered client. We’ll start with content to teach the skills, you’ll observe Linda carrying out the skill with a volunteer, and then practice the skills in small group. We’ll come back to the large group and figure out what worked and what did not. You’ll be ready to practice the skills the next day in group or individual counseling! Learn to roll with the resistance. We’ll use many other Motivational Interviewing skills as well!
There’s rarely a workshop that the topic of “how to work with personality disordered clients” doesn’t come up! It is one of the greatest struggles of the mental health professional. The very nature of the client’s behaviors, reflecting the personality disorder, is often one of resistance, poor boundaries, anger, non-compliance with rules/guidelines, angry threats, emotional dysregulation, pairing off or colluding with other clients, denial, minimization, externalization of responsibility, victimization, and on and on. These behaviors aren’t solely the property of clients with a personality disorder but often are brought to light as survival skills from a childhood often continue from a time when there was no structure, little or no nurturance and bonding, violence, abuse, shame, addiction, and parental loss. Remembering that the client’s survival skills are how the client survived their childhood, yet those skills are no longer working for them as an adult. This is the beginning of understanding how to work with the client in individual and group therapy as well as in a residential therapeutic milieu.
We will review the structure and the evidence-based curriculums with the skills needed in working with many clients with varying personality disorders from borderline personality disorder, narcissism, anti-social, to histrionic, and others. Case studies will incorporate clients with both SA and personality disorder.
Come join us for this skills based workshop, bringing your frustrations, experience, expertise, and your questions!
OBJECTIVES:
Lunch served. We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours: NBCC + NCSAPPB approved CEUs
Another workshop in the “Nothing But Skills” series… so come prepared to work one-on-one with your neighbor as well as practice in small and large groups with the skills necessary to support the personality disordered client. We’ll start with content to teach the skills, you’ll observe Linda carrying out the skill with a volunteer, and then practice the skills in small group. We’ll come back to the large group and figure out what worked and what did not. You’ll be ready to practice the skills the next day in group or individual counseling! Learn to roll with the resistance. We’ll use many other Motivational Interviewing skills as well!
There’s rarely a workshop that the topic of “how to work with personality disordered clients” doesn’t come up! It is one of the greatest struggles of the mental health professional. The very nature of the client’s behaviors, reflecting the personality disorder, is often one of resistance, poor boundaries, anger, non-compliance with rules/guidelines, angry threats, emotional dysregulation, pairing off or colluding with other clients, denial, minimization, externalization of responsibility, victimization, and on and on. These behaviors aren’t solely the property of clients with a personality disorder but often are brought to light as survival skills from a childhood often continue from a time when there was no structure, little or no nurturance and bonding, violence, abuse, shame, addiction, and parental loss. Remembering that the client’s survival skills are how the client survived their childhood, yet those skills are no longer working for them as an adult. This is the beginning of understanding how to work with the client in individual and group therapy as well as in a residential therapeutic milieu.
We will review the structure and the evidence-based curriculums with the skills needed in working with many clients with varying personality disorders from borderline personality disorder, narcissism, anti-social, to histrionic, and others. Case studies will incorporate clients with both SA and personality disorder.
Come join us for this skills based workshop, bringing your frustrations, experience, expertise, and your questions!
OBJECTIVES:
- Identify and explore the basis for personality disorders and how they interfere with the treatment of other disorders such as Depression, Addiction, Bipolar Disorder.
- Develop compassion and understanding for this long term and often difficult disorder to treat.
- Review evidenced based skills and curriculum addressing specific personality disorders.
- Utilize skills to structure individual and group.
Lunch served. We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
