The Personality Mystique

• What is Personality? Overview and Case Example
• ICD-10 and DSM-5® criteria: What is the difference? And does it matter?
• Using diagnostic criteria accurately and avoid common mistakes
• Core beliefs: What are the most common core beliefs for each of the Cluster B disorders
• Understand the role of core beliefs: how to identify them, interrupt them and work with them with Borderline, Narcissistic and Antisocial disorders
• What else could these behaviours mean? When the client seems to have more than one disorder.
• What to do when you experience a strong emotional reaction to the client: Countertransference recognition and interruption
• Attachment issues, suspiciousness and lack of intimacy as it relates to Cluster B
• Developing confidence in diagnosis of Cluster B disorders
• Practice makes perfect: How simple techniques improve the clients ability to respond to stressors

Antisocial Personality Disorders

• Predictors of Antisocial Personality disorder in Childhood
• Case Example: Antisocial Personality Disorder
• The Common Overlap criteria with other disorders
• When charm and charisma are danger signs

• Common impediments to change processes
• How to determine if you have to intervene when inappropriate or dangerous language is used by the client
• “Put down the rope” when you feel like you are in a “tug of war”
• What is happening in the brain that may influence antisocial behavior
• Using CBT and Motivational Interviewing with the reluctant, or oppositional client
• Common Psychotropic Medications used with Antisocial disorders and the risks of some of them

Narcissistic Spectrum

• Narcissistic disorders: Typologies
• Case Example: Antisocial Personality Disorder
• The Common Overlap criteria with other disorders
• Couples and Narcissism: Who do they choose as partners? Overview of dangers and common presentations in couple’s therapy
• Common impediments to change processes
• Do Narcissists know they are Narcissists? And is it important?
• “Thin skinned” perfectionism and hypersensitivity
• Can you develop empathy in someone who lacks empathy?
• Using CBT and Motivational Interviewing techniques to set goals with a Narcissist
• Using CBT techniques to interrupt and modify common thought patterns and behaviors
• How to recognize and discontinue debates, arguments and power struggles

Borderline Personality Disorder

• Is this just one disorder? Borderline as a Spectrum Disorder
• Childhood predictors: Attachment, trust and intimacy
• What is happening in the brain that may influence emotion dysregulation and impulsive behavior
• Using ATRs, CBT and DBT effectively and what is the difference?
• Developing motivation for change: Understanding Incremental Change targets
• Safety: How to manage emotional dysregulation, threats and anger
• What does Countertransference have to do with it?
• Using a therapeutic collaboration with your client to increase stability
• Core beliefs common in Borderline Individuals: How to identify and modify these
• The Five Skill Sets for Borderline Personality Disorder
• Couples and Family issues with Borderline Personality Spectrum
• Addressing fear of abandonment
• Common Psychotropic Medications: Polypharmacy, comorbid conditions and associated risks