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Personality Disorders: Seminar + Book Bundle
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Format:
Package - Video & Book   Instructions
Details:
Multiple DVD recording (6 hours, 25 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions | (softcover) Book: 234 pages
Author:
DANIEL J. FOX, PH.D.
Publisher:
PESI Publishing & Media
Copyright:
8/12/2016
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT048040
Objectives
[+] [-] 046835 - Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders
  1. Discuss the DSM-5® and how it impacts diagnosis and treatment.
  2. Identify and diagnose your antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic and borderline clients
  3. Utilize case studies to understand client symptom presentation, treatment and management of each cluster B client type.
  4. Show how to manage antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline symptomatology and how this can better assist with treatment planning and reduction of symptoms.
  5. Identify and counter treatment blockades to make therapeutic gains.
  6. Show how to interpret, respond to, recognize and prevent suicidal behaviors.

Outline
[+] [-] 046835 - Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders
The Personality Mystique
  • DSM-5® criteria
  • Treatment errors and misdiagnoses
  • Core and/or surface structure and the role of the clinical disorders
  • Differential diagnoses
  • Five central components to accurate diagnosis
  • Insulate your clients against risk factors
Antisocial Spectrum
  • Oppositional defiance to psychopath
  • Attachment
  • Manage and avoid in-session violence and threats
  • Secondary gains, suicide attempts and threats
  • Overcome blockades – manipulation, threats, power-struggles and more
  • Symptom presentation and risk analysis to self and other
  • Interpersonal theory techniques for compliance
  • Balance transference and countertransference
  • Lessen destructive behaviors
  • Cognitive-behavioral experiential techniques to lessen pathology
  • Psychotropic medications
  • Case studies and treatment exercises
Narcissistic Spectrum
  • Narcissistic presentation and the environmental context
  • Attachment and pathological narcissism
  • Tackle the veneer of perfectionism
  • Overcome blockades – power struggle, absent empathy, excessive criticism
  • The narcissistic/borderline client
  • Interpersonal strategies for empathy engagement
  • CBT techniques to clarify behaviors, values and goals
  • Tactics to avoid arguing
  • Motivational Interviewing to overcome resistance
  • Prevent sabotage
  • Build a sense of true self
  • Case studies and treatment exercises
Histrionic Spectrum
  • Moody to excited to histrionic: the erratic client
  • Attachment
  • Coquettish behavior, avoidance drama, inauthenticity
  • Dangers of the histrionic client
  • Link between emotions and behavior
  • Interpersonal strategies to encourage expression of true self
  • Enhance sense of self and lessen the “spotlight”
  • Motivational Interviewing techniques
  • DBT techniques
  • Interpersonal strategies to build positive relationships
  • Strengthen self-initiative and independent action
  • Psychotropic medications
  • Case studies and treatment exercises
Borderline Spectrum
  • Symptom presentation along the spectrum
  • Attachment
  • Feeling identification and behavioral control
  • Manage self-harm and suicidality
  • Rage-ful outbursts, self-mutilation, boundary violations
  • Create stability and build therapeutic collaboration
  • Develop true sense of self and lessen maladaptive need for attention
  • Facilitate pattern recognition
  • Lessen the impact of maladaptive patterns
  • Underlying wishes and fears
  • Build DBT core mindfulness skills
  • DBT techniques to dissolve the distraction and focus on the “genuine relationship”
  • Calm interpersonal upheavals with DBT
  • DBT emotion regulation skills
  • Psychopharmacology and applicability
  • Case studies and treatment exercises

Author

DANIEL J. FOX, PH.D.

Daniel J. Fox, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and multiple-award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence. He has published several articles and books in these areas and is the author of the award-winning Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the award-winning Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders, The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, and Complex Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dr. Fox has been teaching and supervising students for over 20 years at various universities across the United States, some of which include West Virginia University, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, Sam Houston State University, and Florida State University. He works in the federal prison system, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Houston and maintains a private practice that specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals with complex psychopathology and personality disorders. Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for working with clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along with the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com). Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Fox maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Federal Detention Center and the University of Houston. He receives royalties as a published author. He is a reviewer and editor for Prentice Hall and Worth Publishing. Dr. Daniel Fox receives a speaking honorarium, recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Fox has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 045615 - The Clinician's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders
[+] [-] 046835 - Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders
Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Case Managers, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
Reviews
[+] [-] 045615 - The Clinician's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders
“Dr. Fox has effectively pulled together modern thinking, current research and historical perspective into an efficient approach for addressing personality disorders. He does this in a way that is straightforward and presents this distinctive collection of material in a manner that is a pleasure to read. One of the great features of this work is that it attends to therapist’s ethical challenges and self-care needs specific to working with this often difficult population. Dr. Fox’s Clinician’s Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders appears to be setting a standard for applied clinical reference in the age of DSM-5TM.”
-Russell Wood, Ph.D.

“Dr. Fox has given clinicians a strong, straightforward grasp of personality disorders in his book The Clinician’s Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders. He also gathered all of the treatment modalities currently available that promotes movement for the client from their inflexible and pervasive patterns to develop skills that generate success. Whether you are a professional or supervisor looking for ways to support your practice or a general reader on a path of self-help, you can benefit from this clear, informative guide to understanding personality disorders.”
-Lillian Solis-Smith, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT

“Daniel Fox has compiled, integrated, and analyzed a vast amount of information regarding the developing conceptualization of personality disorders. More than a targeted workbook, this text allows the practitioner to gain an in-depth understanding regarding the history of personality disorders, as well as the state of current research, diagnosis, and treatment for personality disorders as a whole and individually. In addition, the diagnosis and treatment recommendations are clear, well-founded in the literature, and provide an excellent framework for working with this difficult population. Moreover, this text provides information and tools which will prove useful in transitioning from the DSM-IV-TR to the DSM-5. It is well-written, practical, and useful for practitioners across the career spectrum.
-Ashley Christiansen, Ph.D.

"An exceptionally well thought-out and artful conceptualization of working with personality disordered clients. A great source material for the novice and seasoned clinician who is seeking practical knowledge and tools in treating personality disorders."
-Kevin Jacques Siffert, Ph.D.

"Daniel Fox has written an essential, masterful therapist manual on Personality Disordered individuals. This manual provides the therapist a well-organized resource for conceptualizing the client, and explaining personality disorders to family members in an open, authoritative and helpful way."
-Sharon M. Freeman Clevenger, MSN, MA, PMHCNS-BC

"I enjoyed reading your book. I found it very practical and helpful. Your writing style is great. I really appreciated the examples from film and literature, as well as your case examples. I found the checklists to be of extraordinary use. Thanks for what you do."
-Rev Daniel Good, JCL, ME, MDiv