What You’ll Discover in Gregory W. Lester 3-Day Personality Disorders Course Advanced Diagnosis, Treatment, & Management
- Faculty:
- Gregory W. Lester
- Duration:
- 18 Hours 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Oct 9, 2018
Description
Do you ever feel that tension and anxiety creep in when you look down at your schedule to see the client that is coming in today. This is the one you secretly dread, but hope it’s a good client.-They are waiting for you, but they won’t let you know. What about the frustration of sessions that seem to go in circles? You feel confused and frustrated.
How can you tell the difference between personality disorders and mental health symptoms? How can you move past fear and doubt?-Doubts about diagnosing personality disorders?
This recording features Dr. Gregory W. Lester, answers these questions and guides you through the dramatically different ways necessary to effectively work with personality disordered individuals. You’ll discover everything you need to breakthrough with your most difficult clients.
Imagine the feeling of success the next time that frustrating client is in your office and you’re able to keep the session on track. You will feel empowered to use a psychological toolkit that includes practical interventions and clinical tools. Confidence in determining the diagnosis of personality disorder and knowing that treatment is on the right track.
Don’t get blindsided or caught up in the drama of difficult clients – gain clarity and confidence in this intensive training with cutting-Edge techniques for diagnosing, treating, and managing all 10 types of personality disorder.
Don’t miss out – this practical, hands-on course recording is a must-All clinicians should be trained!
Handouts
| Manual Personality Disorders Course (1.2 MB) | 200 pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
The Essentials of Advanced Assessment & Treatment Efficiency: Complete the missing pieces to create a treatment Plan that works
- The Distinction “Personality Disorder”
- Why traditional models of mental health don’t fit
- “Symptomatic” Conditions vs. “characteristic” Conditions
- The fundamental structure of disordered personality
- What makes personality disorders a chronic condition?
- How personality disordered people think “it’s everybody else”
- Why “normal” Talking with people with personality disorders is not a good idea.
- The Effects of a Personality Disorder
- How personality disorders can cause problems for others and themselves
- Life patterns that differ between the two “normal” “disordered” Personality
- How can you predict the behavior of people with personality disorders?
- The chaos that is created by
- Cluster A personalities
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Cluster B personalities
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Cluster C personalities
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Cluster A personalities
- Evaluation and diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- How diagnosis is everything in the treatment of personality disorders
- Five steps to diagnose and identify personality disorders
- Effective, quick, and efficient identification
- Diagnostic and testing instruments
- The Etiology of Personality Disorders The Treatment of Patients
- One of the biggest mistakes clinicians make in etiology is
- Misunderstanding etiology can cause interventions to be ineffective
- The definitive answer to personality disorders: What causes them?
- Treating vs. Management Personality Disorders
- Predicting “treatability” For a personality disordered person
- Important preparation is required to determine the best intervention approach
- How to choose the right intervention approach
- All interventions are effective when there is a structure to support them.
- Two common techniques
- Effective treatment goals for individuals in Cluster A, B, or C
Advanced Intervention Approaches Validated Empirically in Action The first step-By-Step-by-step plan to implement the most effective treatment strategy
- Choose Intervention Based On “Treatability” Niveau of Client
- Optimal functioning
- Mentalization-Base Treatment
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy Interpersonal Reconstructive
- Psychotherapy for Object Relations: Developmental Psychotherapy
- Adequate functioning
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Schema-Base Treatment
- Personality-Guided Psychotherapy
- Targeted behavior improvement
- Tactical Therapy
- Strategic Therapy
- Structural Therapy
- Limitations and potential risks of psychotherapeutic methods
- Optimal functioning
- 4-Step-by-Step Approach to Effective Personality Treatment for Disorders
- Get involved in the treatment relationship
- Use two basic treatment techniques
- Choose the right treatment category
- Utilize approach based on client’s diagnosis and treatment goals
- 3-Step-by-Step Approach to Effective Personality Disorder Management
- Foundation to stop disordered behavior
- Implement contingency
- Utilize approach specific to client’s diagnosis
- 3 Must-Have Intervention Techniques for Personality Disorders
- Behavioral Chain Analysis
- Mentalizing interpretations
- Problem-Problem solving
Special Issues Personality Disorders
- Interventions for Co-Conditions that are common
- A typical co-Common disorders of the 10 subtypes
- Sequencing interventions for co-Conditions that are likely to occur
- Medication do’s and don’ts with personality disorders
- Crisis ManagementSelf-Evaluation-Harm and Suicide Interventions
- Fundamental misunderstandings
- Physiological effects and motivations
- Interventions to reduce/eliminate self-Harmonize
- Harvard’s three distinctions of suicidality
- Interventions to treat suicidal ideation
- Acute suicidality: Treatment options
- Unique Considerations
- Personality Disorders in children and teens
- Intervention modifications
- Family and couple therapy interventions
- Interventions require special procedures
- Partnering with someone who is personality disordered
- There are ways to help them get out of trouble
- Coaching for effective management
- Self-Caring for loved ones
- Personality Disorders in children and teens
Faculty
Gregory W. Lester, Ph.D. Similar seminars and products 9
Gregory W. Lester, Ph.D., A psychologist who works in Colorado and Texas as a consultant, clinical, or research psychologist. Dr. Lester He has delivered over 2,000 trainings on personality disorders to over 200,000 professionals from every major US, Canadian, and Australian city. Dr. Lester Over 1,000 personality disorders cases have been treated and over 2,500 people have had psychological evaluations.
Dr. Lester He has served as a consultant to The United Sates Department of Justice and on the University of St. Thomas graduate faculty. Dr. Lester’s office served as one of the original research sites for the DSM-5® revision of the personality disorders section where he collaborated with Emory University, the New York State Psychiatric Group, The University of Missouri, The University of Kentucky, and the late Dr. Robert Spitzer, chairman of the DSM-3 committee.
Dr. Lester He is a member the American Psychological Association and the Texas Psychological Association. He is the author or nine books, including People are the power of powerA manual for interpersonal effectiveness. Shrunken HeadsAn irreverent account of his graduate school training. Diagnoses, Treatment and Recovery Management Of Personality Disorders, Which is the largest?-Selling front-Line clinical manual for diagnosing, treating and managing personality disorders.
Dr. Lester’s research and articles have appeared in publications including The Journal of the American Medical Association. The Western Journal of Medicine. The Yearbook of Family Practice. The Journal of Behavioral Therapy. The Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy. The Handbook of Depression. Transactional Analysis Journal. Living Word Magazine. The Priest Magazine. The Houston Lawyer.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Gregory Lester Private practice. PESI, Inc. gives him a speaking honourarium.
Non-financial: Gregory Lester The American Psychological Association, Colorado Psychological Association and Texas Psychological Association are all members.
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