Are you equipped to treat Personality Disorders?
Master the advanced skillset you need to treat Personality Disorders with renowned expert and best-selling author, Dr. Gregory Lester.
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Personality Disorders Advanced Treatment and Management
Effective Techniques to Treat Personality Disorders
For couples, families, individuals, children and adolescents.
Special Topics & How-To Solutions
Group treatment. Crises. Liability and safety issues. Suicidality.
Medications and their effects.
Answers to Your Challenges as a Practitioners
Self-Care. Counter-transference. Managing personality disorders in your personal life.
"As always Dr. Lester's seminars are interesting, useful and packed with information."
- Cynthia H.
Personality Disorders are considered "hopeless" and "untreatable" - but that's not the case.
Use the interventions in this esteemed course to create effective treatment plans for your clients.
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
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
More topics you'll feel equipped to handle in your practice...
- Common comorbid conditions
- Formats and techniques specific to children and adolescents, plus how personality disorders differ in this population and how to diagnose.
- Distressed vs. conflictual couples, working with "interlocking" disorders, and conjoint vs. individual treatment approaches.
- Family therapy, disordered families vs. disorders in families.
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"Dr. Lester is a wonderful presenter and educator. Also, the manual is so thorough and informative - will continue to refer back to it, as I have done with two of his other seminars."
- Mary E.
Meet Dr. Gregory Lester
A clinician, researcher, author, lecturer, and DSM-5® committee member, Dr. Greg Lester brings over 30 years of experience to the field of Personality Disorder diagnosis and intervention. He worked as a committee member to develop the personality disorders section of the DSM-5®, and he maintains his clinical practice as a nexus for research and consultation, as well as treatment. Dr. Lester has trained more than 150,000 professionals, using his own brand of humor, empathy, and professionalism, and he is the successful author of numerous books and articles.
Over the decades, he has distilled, refined, updated, and applied the techniques of the giants in the field, including Menninger, Kernberg, and Linehan. Coalescing their theoretical models with his own practical treatment experiences, Dr. Lester imbues the subject with freshness and clarity. He uses his passion for teaching to guide you with skill and care through the use of his proven methodologies in this one-of-a-kind online course. His ideas will fundamentally alter the results you achieve with your patients.
Continuing Education
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