Explore the signs and symptoms, causes, and treatment of this often-misunderstood diagnosis with a licensed therapist

Personality describes everything about you, and personality disorders can be challenging to manage. In addition to dealing with the illness itself, people often struggle with the myths and stigma surrounding personality disorders. Explore the categories of personality disorders, their symptoms, causes, and treatment. Learn practical tips for managing symptoms and supporting others with a licensed therapist.

People often label others as narcissists without having a clear understanding of what this diagnosis really means. Explore the signs and symptoms, causes, and treatment of this often-misunderstood diagnosis. Separate myths and facts and learn how to manage symptoms and support loved ones with a licensed therapist.

DID, once called multiple personality disorder, is characterized by a person's identity dividing into two or more personalities

Explore the signs and symptoms, causes, and treatment of this often-misunderstood diagnosis

Explore the categories of personality disorders, their symptoms, causes, and treatment

Graham is a full member of the Institute of Group Analysis, He is registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy as a therapist and UKCP approved supervisor.

He originally trained as a psychiatric nurse and has worked in the NHS for more than 30 years, with a particular interest in groupwork, therapeutic community and developing psycho-dynamically informed services for people diagnosed with personality disorders. He was a specialist psychotherapist in the local mental health trust

He now works part-time as Trust Lead for Clinical Supervision in Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust.

He has a small private practice, offering individual and group compassion focussed psychotherapy, supervision to individuals and teams and bespoke training in areas such as working with personality disorder, staff support & well-being and compassionate mind approaches.

Explore the three categories of personality disorders, their symptoms, causation, and treatment options with a licensed therapist

Personality Disorders have long been an enigma for therapists. What do you do? How do you identify them with any clarity? Is there any treatment for clients living with them? This training will give an overview of current thought on Personality Disorders and their diagnosis. It will look at diagnosis based upon the DSM 5, and will review current research on viable treatments currently available. Time will be spent on looking at Borderline Personality Disorder, what is known about its origins, impairments, biology, and treatment, and how to remove the stigma associated with the diagnosis.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn current diagnostic criteria for Personality Disorders
• Learn what current literature on the subject says
• Learn when to treat and when not to treat
• Understand complications of PDs
• Learn reasons clients with Personality Disorders enter therapy
• Understand how to set reasonable therapeutic goals
• Learn about the underpinnings of treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
• Be able to diagnosis BPD
• Tools for talking with a client about the diagnosis of BPD
• Ways to engage BPD clients in therapy
• Examine what is best practice/evidence based practice for personality disorders
• Learn how to take care of yourself when treating personality disorder

People often label others as narcissists without having a clear understanding what this diagnosis really means. Separate myths and facts and explore the signs and symptoms, prevalence, and treatment of this often-misunderstood diagnosis. Learn practical tips to manage symptoms and support loved ones in this one-hour session.

Certificates of attendance are provided at no cost.

About the instructor: Jaymi Dormaier, LMSW, holds a master's degree in social work from Michigan State University. In Jaymi's career as a social worker and therapist she has worked with a diverse population focusing on a variety of issues including homelessness, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, foster care, adoption, and addiction. She is passionate about helping others live a life they love.

Jaymi is on the board of a non-profit organization focused on bringing more happiness to the world through random acts of kindness. In her free time Jaymi enjoys spending time with her dog, volunteering in her community, and camping.

Personality describes everything about you, and personality disorders can be challenging to manage. In addition to dealing with the illness itself, people often struggle with the myths and stigma surrounding personality disorders. Explore the three categories of personality disorders, their symptoms, causation, and treatment. Learn practical tips for managing symptoms and supporting others.

Certificates of attendance are provided at no cost.

About the instructor: Jaymi Dormaier, LMSW, holds a master's degree in social work from Michigan State University. In Jaymi's career as a social worker and therapist she has worked with a diverse population focusing on a variety of issues, including homelessness, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, foster care, adoption, and addiction. She is passionate about helping others live a life they love.

Jaymi is on the board of a non-profit organization focused on bringing more happiness to the world through random acts of kindness. In her free time Jaymi enjoys spending time with her dog, volunteering in her community, and camping.

Take a deep dive into just how attachment trauma affects the developing brain and contributes to the development of characterological disorders.

Drawing from research that that has found an association between attachment trauma and personality disorders, Courtney will help you work effectively with and master the association between attachment trauma and these often recalcitrant patients.

In this stimulating workshop, you will learn evidence-based treatment strategies that will give you the skills to create a stronger therapeutic alliance, reduce your frustration, and safely reprocess early attachment trauma using insights from the neuroscience discovery of memory reconsolidation.

This educational program will include lecture and video examples to teach and integrate skills and interventions.

Personality describes everything about you, and personality disorders can be challenging to manage. In addition to dealing with the illness itself, people often struggle with the myths and stigma surrounding personality disorders. Explore the three categories of personality disorders, their symptoms, causation, and treatment. Learn practical tips for managing symptoms and supporting others.

Certificates of attendance are provided at no cost.

About the instructor: Jaymi Dormaier, LMSW, holds a master's degree in social work from Michigan State University. In Jaymi's career as a social worker and therapist she has worked with a diverse population focusing on a variety of issues, including homelessness, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, foster care, adoption, and addiction. She is passionate about helping others live a life they love.

Jaymi is on the board of a non-profit organization focused on bringing more happiness to the world through random acts of kindness. In her free time Jaymi enjoys spending time with her dog, volunteering in her community, and camping.

Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered one of the most challenging groups to work with, in the clinical population. Although the typical course of treatment is longer than protocols for other diagnoses, it should be noted that the DSM task force issued a statement conveying that contrary to popular belief, the prognosis for most patients with Borderline PD is actually quite good. Although factors associated with other Personality Disorders don’t lend themselves to the same body of research as BPD, smaller studies, as well as clinical experience, show marked improvement for many of these individuals as well.

But successful treatment outcomes all start with recognition of symptoms and effective communicating of the diagnosis. Many clinicians report leaving graduate school feeling ill-equipped to handle this population in clinically helpful ways. Stigma, bias, misdiagnosis, and fear of labelling all contribute to countless individuals not being properly diagnosed and thus not receiving the treatment they so desperately need.