Gain practical tips to successfully work with manipulators!

Manipulators are among a more troublesome group of disturbed and disordered characters that helping professionals increasingly find themselves dealing with, whether or not those clients have been primarily diagnosed with a personality disorder. Like the proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing, manipulators know how to get the better of others and look good while doing it. Dealing with them can be a lot like getting whiplash, you fully realize what’s transpired only after the damage is already done. Most clinicians know that traditional insight-oriented approaches designed to treat “neurosis” aren’t very effective when it comes to intervening with the character-impaired. Join one of the foremost authorities on manipulative personalities, Dr. George Simon, as he shares a unique perspective along with practical, effective strategies that promote positive change in clients of troubled character.

Course Content:

the nature of character disturbance

• Key differences between “neurotic” and character-impaired personalities
  • Anxiety
  • Conscience
  • Guilt
  • Shame
  • Awareness
• Ten commandments of character development 
• Manipulative personality types
• Framework to identify manipulators

distorted thinking and habitual problematic behavior patterns

• Thinking errors 
  • Circumstantial
  • End-game
  • Egomaniacal
  • Combative
  • Opportunistic
  • Unreasonable
• Tactics used to evade responsibility and manipulate others
• Techniques to manage thinking errors and tactics

Interventions

• Practical strategies to promote genuine change
• Empowerment tools
  • Setting limits
  • Respecting boundaries
  • Judge actions, not intentions
  • Make direct requests, expect direct responses
  • Know yourself
• Sample therapy vignettes