Course info

CANCELLED

Date: 10/14/2024 @8:45am-4pm (EST)      Cost: $150  Instructor: Tatia Williams, Psy.D., LPCC-S, Psychologist

CE Credit Hours: 6

Course Description:

Personality Disorders are highly prevalent among people who are experiencing chronic mental and emotional illnesses such as Anxiety and Mood Disorders. This training will explore what personality disorders are, how they develop, and why it is important to recognize and accurately diagnose personality disorders, particularly in high-risk individuals with numerous comorbidities. Complexities related to diagnosis will be explored and the integrated model of diagnosis as represented in the DSM-5-TR will be presented. This training will also provide an overview of evidence informed treatment strategies as well as tips for managing challenging behaviors, maintaining therapeutic boundaries, and delivering culturally sensitive and ethically sound care.

Goals:

• Increase understanding of the etiology and development of personality disorders
• Increase ability to identify and accurately diagnose personality disorders while maintaining culturally sensitive practices
• Develop awareness of evidence informed treatment strategies tailored to different personality disorders

Objectives:

• Describe factors that increase the risk of personality-based pathology
• Identify different methods of assessment and diagnosis and their utility 
• Identify the core features of the personality disorders using the DSM-5-TR criteria, differentiating them from other conditions with overlapping symptoms
• Promote ethical and culturally sensitive practices with regard to diagnosing and treating personality disorders
• Demonstrate the ability to develop evidence informed treatment planning

Course Outline:

Morning Session: 8:45 – 12:15 (15 minute break ~10:30)

• Evolving conceptualization of personality development and its function
• The Disorders: DSM-5-TR; Understanding functional impairment
• Approaches to assessing personality disorders 
• Overarching cultural considerations
• Common comorbidities and differentiating overlapping symptom criteria

Lunch 12:15 – 1:00

Afternoon Session 1:00 – 4:00 (15 minute break ~2:30)

• The Brain and “pervasive” patterns
• Understanding cognitive, emotional and relational impacts
• Evidence Informed treatments, minimizing stigma, and promoting a strengths-based approach to care
• Tips for managing challenging behaviors and maintaining therapeutic boundaries in clinical practice
• Wrap up and evaluation

Level: Intermediate

Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc. has been approved as a CE provider by the Ohio Psychological Association (#311358292), the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (RCS060502), and as a NBCC ACEP^TM No. 7265.