Personality Disorders- Assessing, Diagnosing and Treating Personality
Live Seminar:
- 7.5 CEU's
- Presenter: Patrick DeChello Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, RPH
- Check for seminar availability in Arizona (AZ), Connecticut (CT), Florida (FL), Illinois (IL), Louisiana (LA), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Oregon (OR), Rhode Island (RI), Texas (TX), Vermont (VT), Washington (WA)
Book:
- DS 21 -Personality Disorders
- Author: Patrick DeChello Ph.D., MSW, LCSW
CD Set :
- DS21CD -Personality Disorder
- Author: Patrick DeChello Ph.D., MSW, LCSW
Home study Courses:
On-line Course: Coming Soon
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION, SUMMARY AND OUTLINE
Personality disorders have been a source of anguish for the mental health community for many years. The treatment community has faced the dilemma of attempting to make a differential diagnosis in light of the fact that for every axis II disorder, there are one or more axis I disorders that look very much alike. In fact the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals over the years have been attempting to control for the amount of overlap between the diagnoses to bring more clarity to the diagnostic process. This has been done with only marginal success.
With managed care often not paying for the treatment of most personality disorders, clinicians tend to be drawn to the axis I disorders to explain the client's pathology. This may result in a continuation of the problem and increase the client's sense of helplessness and hopelessness. Unfortunately, the treatment of personality or characterological defect is a specialized area that requires greater diagnostic and intervention expertise to successfully ameliorate or resolve the problem.
Most clinicians assess clients without the benefits of formalized diagnostic testing such as the MMPI-II or similar tests. Clinicians need information that will help them to determine the presence of a personality disorder or to differentiate between them. This workshop is designed to provide clinicians with the information that will help them to make this critical determination. Making an appropriate diagnosis, allows for quicker relief and healthier behaviors for the client.
Goals and Objectives
- Participants will learn the history behind the personality disorder diagnosis.
- Participants will become familiar with the key characteristics of each of the personality disorders.
- Participants will learn to differentiate between the 3 personality disorder clusters.
- Participants will learn the latest research regarding the etiology of personality disorder.
- Participants will examine the role of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in the determination of personality disorders.
- Participants will learn to differentiate between a personality disorder and a personality style.
- Participants will be able to understand when to use the personality disorder NOS disorder category.
- Participants will become familiar with the use of the diagnostic interview to assess for personality disorder.
- Participants will become familiar with the different intervention methodologies and their effectiveness for each personality disorder.
Participants will become familiar with the special considerations necessary for the use of personality disorders classifications in children. |
