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• Extend your knowledge of personality disorders, assessment, and effective intervention
• Discover the most effective tools in the treatment of "overlapping" and "interlocking" disorders, comorbid conditions, and "untreatable" cases
• Examine specialized and advanced topics in the treatment of personality disorders, including crises, liability, suicidality, and self-care of the practitioner
• Develop tools to perform integrated and flexible brief, short-term, and extended treatments
• Recognize how to diagnose and treat personality disorders in couples and families
• Outline diagnosis and treatment options for personality disorders and comorbid conditions in children
• Identify expanded methods for managing the behavior of personality disordered individuals
• Examine the latest data on prescribing and the use of medications with personality disorders

THE EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS

• The five essential elements of all treatment approaches
• The integrated “Fluid” model
• The use of short-term dynamic formats
• The use of short-term supportive formats
• The use of short-term cognitive-behavioral formats

THE EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES

• Techniques for increasing motivation for change
• Techniques for building observing ego capacity
• Techniques for constraining drama
• Techniques for building problem-solving abilities
• Techniques for eliciting new behaviors
• Techniques for developing new traits

EXPANDING BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT

• How to take, and keep, control of the relationship
• How to break up old behavioral and relationship patterns
• How to elicit new behaviors

TREATING PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

• How personality disorders differ in children and adolescents
• Diagnosing personality disorders in children and adolescents
• Common comorbid conditions
• Child and adolescent treatment formats
• Child and adolescent treatment techniques

TREATING DISORDERED COUPLES

• Distressed vs. conflictual couples
• Working with “interlocking” disorders
• Conjoint vs. individual treatment approaches

TREATING DISORDERED FAMILIES

• Personality disorders and family therapy
• Disordered families vs. disorders in families

MEDICATIONS

• What the research on the use of medications shows
• What medications have been shown to—and shown not to—accomplish
• When to avoid medications altogether
• How to know if medications are working

SPECIAL TOPICS AND “HOW-TOS”

• Group treatment
• Crises
• Liability and safety issues
• Suicidality

PRACTITIONER ISSUES

• Self-care
• Counter-transference
• Managing personality disorders in personal life

• Anyone dealing with difficult cases, including:
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Occupational Therapists
• Pharmacists
• Physician Assistants
• Clinical Supervisors
• Case Managers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Alcohol and Drug Counselors
• Nurses
• Home Health Care Personnel
• Nursing Home Personnel
• Psychiatric Hospital Staff
• Primary Care Personnel
• Hospice Care Workers
• Developmental Disability Counselors
• Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors