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Diagnosis & Intervention for Personality Disorders: 
Mastering the Keys to Success


Did you know treating a patient who has an undiagnosed Personality Disorder with traditional therapies can actually do more harm than good? Could you diagnose a Personality Disorder?


You'll encounter a patient with personality disorders at some point in your career, but are you prepared for their intense mood swings, extreme reactions, and impulsive behaviors?  And because they very rarely even recognize themselves as having a problem, these patients make up the most difficult and challenging mental health population. Even the first step, diagnosis, requires specific training that hasn’t been readily available. Moreover, traditional medications and clinical interventions don’t work for this population, so how are you to proceed?
 

Many within the field look at patients with personality disorders as "hopeless" and "untreatable".


Avoid the mistakes made by 90% of therapists and enroll in this comprehensive online course that shows you the assumptions and misconceptions that may be negatively impacting your treatments for personality disorders. 


A leading clinical practitioner and lecturer on the subject of Personality Disorders, Dr. Greg Lester will guide you through the complexities of Personality Disorders, using his unique and proven techniques: case studies and examples, lecture, and discussion, until you have mastered ALL the necessary skills to permit you to accurately diagnose and intervene in the clinical setting and beyond. You’ll immediately be able to effect positive change in your patients’ lives.
 

Walk away with the ability to manage these patients and help them function better in their relationships with others. 


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According to the DSM®, Personality Disorders are a discreet and QUALITATIVELY distinct set of conditions that require a separate set of diagnostic, treatment, and management protocols. There have been treatment theories developed that are effective with PD patients; however, these can’t be applied without significant guidance in the practical realm. Dr. Lester fills in these theoretical gaps with detailed and thorough discussions of actual treatment methods and management techniques, leaving you prepared to handle the real-world difficulties arising from this qualitatively different illness.

 

Personality Disorders and the DSM-5: Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of PD

Digital Seminar by Greg Lester, PhD

Although widely acknowledged to be the most difficult of all mental health conditions, few professionals are properly trained to assess and intervene in cases involving personality disorders. These disorders are almost always the driving force behind stalled treatment; stressful and frustrating case management; and confusing, resistive, and seemingly unmanageable clients. Unless practitioners understand how personality disorders are unique, and learn the specific methods that are required to treat and manage them, their effectiveness will be sharply diminished and the stress caused by this clientele will be unnecessarily high.
 

 

This is a comprehensive, cutting-edge model for understanding Personality Disorders that requires NO prior PD training – upon completion, you will have mastered:

The reasoning and research underlying the DSM categorizations of Personality Disorders, the DSM-5® changes, and why these matter to you, the clinician:

This understanding is crucial – PD symptoms regularly masquerade as a host of non-PD mental health issues, and the therapist often finds himself treating the wrong illness. Recognition and categorization are the necessary keys without which you risk proceeding down the wrong treatment path.

How to develop the unique mindset necessary to interact with people who have Personality Disorders without being drawn into their destructive behaviors:

 Dr. Lester devotes significant discussion to this topic because the patients with personality disorders are, by definition, masters at pulling people into their worlds. He will equip you with specific strategies to resist these skilled manipulations. Without these strategies, the very compassion and empathy that are great advantages with your non-PD patients act as detriments in the personality disorder setting.   

The steps of the diagnostic process, and their applications in a wide variety of settings:

While it’s a truism that you can’t treat or manage without a correct diagnosis, it’s still essential that you have the information necessary to diagnose both a personality disorder and its subtype. Moreover, the information contained within a diagnosis is central as a tool that prepares you to recognize and remain above the resistance tactics your patient will attempt during treatment.
Dr. Lester offers this information in a unique form, with a discussion that weaves diagnostic information into detailed examples. The hallmarks of each disorder, along with the possibilities of how they can present, are detailed within numerous relatable and clarifying examples in order to pinpoint their essentials. You’ll be equipped to diagnose personality disorders, even in their most elaborate guises. 

The common principle that guides all effective interventions, and how to maintain it within a treatment framework:

Personality disorders require a new way of thinking – this key principle is the cornerstone to attaining and keeping that mindset.

A critical distinction - Treatment vs. Management:

Management is not a subset of treatment. Methods and outcomes have substantive differences, and each has a place in the world of personality disorders. In his discussion of the situations where treatment is, or is not, appropriate, Dr. Lester addresses the following questions: 

Interventions for each diagnosis:

Here are the real-world applications for theoretical premises. Addressing the PD subtypes, Dr. Lester guides you through the application of each subtype’s corollary interventions, and how they do, or do not, work in each situation. Dr. Lester illustrates using numerous highly-descriptive case examples, allowing you the opportunity to actually visualize how the applications work. Divided into two sections, management and treatment, this is the core information where in you’ll attain the level of the professional skill to address any and every aspect of personality disorders. 
The information in this substantive section is reinforced with even more detail in the companion course manual.  

Powerful techniques to assist those who are dealing with personality disordered people in their personal and work environments:

Because the behavior of personality disordered patients has an inordinately detrimental effect upon everyone within their realm, including family members (parents, spouses, children), friends, and work (bosses, colleagues, subordinates), your patient population could easily include people who are in desperate need of these techniques.  

 

Bottom Line: With Dr. Lester’s tools, you can succeed at rebuilding the lives of this complicated patient population and the many whose lives they touch, but you MUST have the proper tools!

You’ll receive up to 14 hours of Continuing Education, as well as a comprehensive guide to the treatment and management of personality disorders!

 

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Your Course Director:

 

 

 

Gregory Lester, PhD

 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 Personality Disordered patients. 

 

 
 

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Today’s Most Powerful and Effective Treatment and Management

Presenter: Greg Lester, Phd

 

 

6-Hour Video Session 


Empirically-proven Strategies for Helping Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Although the most prominent, well-known, and well-researched of the personality disorders, individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder remain one of the most difficult types of clients for most mental health and social service professionals. Often experienced as exasperating, upsetting, and even impossible, patients with BPD often confuse, frighten, and frustrate clinicians.

It does not need to be this way. Although largely unfamiliar to all but a few specialists in the area, there are new, innovative, and cutting-edge methods that have empirically-proven effectiveness in managing and treating the behavior of this often bewildering client population. By drawing on the most current experience, research, and literature, this seminar offers mental health and social service professionals concise and practical information on treating and managing individuals with this difficult condition.


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Maintaining an Ethical Behavioral Health Practice: Legal, Technological, and Boundary Issues

with Bruce J. Spencer, MA, PhD, LMHC, LPCC, LMSW, NCC, Advanced Ethical Studies Certification

 

2-Hour Ethics Course

Many mental health professionals have more anxiety about "legal ramifications" of their actions than "ethical practice." The fact remains that knowledge of ethical standards and ethical decision-making processes can enhance client care and decrease the "legal" anxiety. This webinar will address the ethical/legal mandates for practice, with specifics on "duty to warn," subpoenas, complaints, and investigations. Participants will also investigate the unique concerns that surround the use of technology in their practices, particularly as it relates to communication. Finally, the dynamics of the counseling relationship will be evaluated to determine, among other things, where boundaries lie and when it might be necessary to terminate treatment.

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What Your Colleagues Are Saying:

 

I have never been to a more effective or entertaining seminar. The instructor was incredible and extremely informative. "
- Mike H, Case Manager, Atlantic City, NJ

 

"This was the best course I've ever taken! Fantastic, thorough, deep and engaging presentation and brilliant material! I was blown away from what I learned about Borderline Personality Disordered people! "
- Susan S, New York, NY

 

"As always Dr. Lester's seminars are interesting, useful and packed with information."
- Cynthia H, Apex, NC
 

"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, Hagerstown, MD

 

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