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