Full Course Description

Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial & Histrionic Personality Disorders

You’re not imagining it—these sessions are harder.

You’re managing emotional volatility, manipulation, rejection sensitivity and holding boundaries —often within a single session.

And just one activating statement can unravel everything.

But these clients deserve effective, compassionate care just like everyone else…and with the right tools and a proven framework you can provide life changing treatment.

That’s exactly what you’ll get from one of the world’s leading experts on personality disorders in this intensive one-day training!

Join Dr. Dan Fox for the latest research, a structural framework based on his decades of work, and a toolbox of evidence-based interventions that will help you approach these sessions with a clear plan and greater confidence.

You’ll walk away from this training ready to:

  • Differentiate Cluster B presentations—even when traits overlap and shift
  • Manage splitting, volatility, and boundary testing more effectively
  • De‑escalate emotional volatility without invalidating the clienT
  • Navigate idealization, devaluation, and rupture with steadiness
  • Manage self‑harm risk and crisis dynamics with clinical confidence

PLUS with case studies, worksheets and video examples, you won’t just learn the concepts — you’ll see how symptoms show up and what effective intervention looks like for each Cluster B type.

This is your chance to level up your skills with a world‑renowned expert — register now!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Differentiate between overlapping Cluster B presentations, including mixed-trait and dimensionally complex cases, to improve diagnostic precision using DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 frameworks.
  2. Apply a core/surface structural framework to explain treatment resistance and guide intervention beyond standard symptom-focused approaches.
  3. Analyze therapy-interfering behaviors and implement disorder-matched strategies to reduce treatment attrition.
  4. Select evidence-based interventions, including DBT, MBT, schema therapy, and motivational strategies, for emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and maladaptive interpersonal patterns across Cluster B disorders.
  5. Integrate dimensional assessment, safety planning, and crisis intervention protocols into Cluster B treatment to monitor risk across outpatient, institutional, and telehealth settings.
  6. Evaluate countertransference patterns and clinician vulnerability factors to maintain therapeutic effectiveness and reduce iatrogenic harm in high-intensity Cluster B treatment.

Outline

Foundations of Cluster B Personality Disorders

  • Case conceptualization, attachment wounds, and fear-based motivational patterns
  • Symptoms, defenses, and interpersonal presentation across Cluster B
  • DSM-5-TR Alternative Model and ICD-11 dimensional approaches
  • Differential diagnosis, comorbidity, and treatment limitations

Antisocial Personality Disorder

  • Distinguishing ASPD, sociopathy, and psychopathy
  • The triarchic model: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition
  • Core drivers: dominance, entitlement, low empathy, and power-based motivation
  • Treatment barriers, prognostic factors, and realistic clinical goals

Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorders

  • The narcissistic spectrum: shame, fragile self-esteem, grandiosity, and empathic failure
  • Histrionic personality disorder: approval dependence, abandonment anxiety, and identity instability
  • Surface presentations and differential diagnosis
  • Treatment strategies

Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Developmental foundations: biosocial theory, attachment disruption, and identity diffusion
  • Surface presentation: affective instability, impulsivity, relational volatility, and splitting
  • Self-harm, suicidality, and the NSSI distinction
  • Intervention: core fears, skill-building, relational work, and identity consolidation

Clinician Safety, Crisis Planning, and Clinical Integration

  • Escalation risk, behavioral warning signs, and safety planning across settings
  • Documentation, boundaries, and liability in high-risk clinical work
  • Countertransference, clinician vulnerability, and wrong-patient syndrome
  • Crisis planning across Cluster B, including level-of-care decision making

Target Audience

  • Counselors 
  • Social Workers 
  • Psychologists 
  • Marriage and Family Therapists 
  • Psychiatrists 
  • Registered Psychotherapists 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Case Managers 
  • Nurses 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/14/2026