Course info

Date: 12/19/22 @ 8:45am-4:00pm (EST) Cost: $120                                          

Instructor: Claire Robitaille, PhD, LSW, Psychologist

CE Credit Hours: 6

Course Description:

Personality Disorders are highly prevalent among persons 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 will be presented. 

Goals:

• Increase participants understanding of the etiology and development of personality disorders
• Increase the ability to identify and accurately diagnosis the disorder.
• Expose participants to various assessment tools used to assess personality functioning

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 criteria
• Through the use of case review demonstrate the ability to assess and diagnosis personality disorders

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; Understanding functional impairment
• Assessing and Diagnosing Personality Disorders

Lunch 12:15 – 1:00

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

• Treatment and Intervention
• The Brain and “pervasive” patterns
• Understanding cognitive, emotional and relational impacts
• Evidence Based treatments
• Case Review and Application
• Wrap up, take away 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.