The Tristesse Grief Center Presents:

Webinar: Personality Disorders: What am I supposed to do now? 

Friday, August 23, 2024

9:00 - 12:00 CST

3 CE Credits

$50

Speaker: Emilie Smith LPC

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Personality Disorders have long been an enigma for therapists. What do you do? How do you identify them with any clarity? Is there any treatment for clients living with them? This training will give an overview of current thought on Personality Disorders and their diagnosis. It will look at diagnosis based upon the DSM 5, and will review current research on viable treatments currently available. Time will be spent on looking at Borderline Personality Disorder, what is known about its origins, impairments, biology, and treatment, and how to remove the stigma associated with the diagnosis. 


Target Audience: Licensed Master Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, Psychologists, Social Work Students, Counseling Students


Content Level: Beginning to intermediate level


About the instructor:

Emilie Smith has a Bachelor Degree in Social Science - Psychology from Marylhurst University, and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Lewis and Clark College, Graduate School of Professional Studies. She has worked in Community Mental Health and had a private practice. She learned Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) from its developer, Dr. Marsha Linehan, and has run DBT programs in various agencies and has trained multiple clinicians in its use. At The Grief Center she works with adults and older teens, both with individual and group therapy, as well as presents multiple CEU trainings throughout the year.



Learning Objectives:

Define current diagnostic criteria for Personality Disorders

Describe what current literature on the subject says

Analyze when to treat and when not to treat

Define complications of PDs

Describe reasons clients with Personality Disorders enter therapy

Describe how to set reasonable therapeutic goals

Describe the underpinnings of treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Illustrate how to diagnosis BPD

Give Examples of tools for talking with a client about the diagnosis of BPD

Give examples of ways to engage BPD clients in therapy

Define what is best practice/evidence based practice for personality disorders

Describe how to take care of yourself when treating personality disorder


Course Outline


Introduction (15 minutes)


Session 1: Understanding Personality Disorders (40 minutes)


Session 2: Treatment Considerations (45 minutes)


Session 3: Focus on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (60 minutes)


Session 4: Best Practices and Self-Care (40 minutes)


Conclusion and Wrap-Up (10 minutes)



Course interaction & system requirements:

This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. 

System requirements: 

Participants are expected to remain logged into the webinar the full time, and actively participate in chatting and surveys.  In order to get full credit, a brief survey must be taken at the end of the webinar. 


Get Virtual Tickets Cost is $50 and includes CE credit. Registration deadline day of presentation up until start time. 


CE APPROVALS

The Tristesse Grief Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7131. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Tristesse Grief Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.


The Tristesse Grief Center, provider #1867, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 8/25/23-8/25/24


The Tristesse Grief Center is an approved Oklahoma Board of Behavioral Health CE provider. 


For questions or concerns email kaylin@thegriefcenter.org


Course Completion Requirements:


Certificates will be electronically via email at the conclusion of the training, and after of a brief electronic survey



Refunds for Webinars: Refunds for webinars must be requested via email to hello@thegriefcenter.org. Fees will be refunded, less a processing fee, if the refund request is received before the start of the webinar, or if the attendee experienced technical difficulties which prevented participation in the webinar for the entirety of the event. No certificate of participation will be issued for complete or partial CEU credit. 


Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend our continuing education events. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in a continuing education offering, please contact Kaylin Parsons, Director of Education at kaylin@thegriefcenter.org or by calling our main number at 918-587-1200 at least 10 days prior to the event so we can make arrangements.