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Personality Disorder is inflexible patterns in thoughts, behaviors and feelings. Individuals with personality disorder are unable to modify their behaviors to fit a situation.
Intervention: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Specific Intervention: Trigger Worksheet
Handout-Anger-Consequences-G.pdfMy Group Guide. (2020, April 22). Free therapy worksheets. https://www.mygroupguide.com/worksheets/
Brown, C., Stoffel, V. C., & Munoz, J. (2019). Occupational therapy in mental health: A vision for participation (2nd ed.). F.A. Davis.
Audience: Adults and Teens
Audience: Adults and Teens
Diagnosis & Population: Diagnosis of Personality Disorder with impact in thinking, feeling, interpersonal relationships or impulse control (need 2/4 to be diagnosed).
Purpose: To help clients see consequences for their actions and challenge their thinking to find alternative ways of responding. Understand how to properly behave in certain situations.
Rationale & Impact on Function: Help the clients understand that anger is okay to feel, but the negative behaviors that may arise are not. Clients are able to come up with new ways to integrate their fixed responses to behaviors in their proper environment.
Intervention: Interpersonal Behaviors
Specific Intervention: Try Not to Listen Activity
Audience: Children/Young adults
Audience: Children/Young adults
Diagnosis & Population: Diagnosis of Personality Disorder with forming relationships
Instructions: Group activity where each member gets a pair. One individual is the speaker and the other is the "listener". First speaker talks for 2 min straight, and while they are talking, other person is trying to make it clear that they are not listening to their partner at all. The "listener" is not allowed to say anything, they must only rely on their body language to send that message across. Roles then switch and repeat. Once done, both participants must write down their immediate reactions to how they felt when their partner was not listening to them. Then, each should write down behaviors that their partner was showing to prove they weren't listening.
Purpose: To show individuals that body language plays an important role in communication, and that listeners have an influence on how interactions flow.
Rationale & Impact on Function: Will allow individuals to understand their body language and better form meaningful relationships with others. It will help the individual to become a better listener!
Courtney E. Ackerman, MA. (2023, April 27). Interpersonal Effectiveness: 9 worksheets & examples (+ PDF). PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/interpersonal-effectiveness/
Brown, C., Stoffel, V. C., & Munoz, J. (2019). Occupational therapy in mental health: A vision for participation
(2nd ed.). F.A. Davis.
Mood Disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders that can come from cognitive style, biological factors and environmental stress.
Intervention: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Specific Intervention: Self-Esteem Bucket
Audience: Adolescents and Caregiver
Audience: Adolescents and Caregiver
Diagnosis & Population: Diagnosis of a mood disorder, specifically depressive disorders.
Instructions and Materials: Paper and pen. Draw out a bucket image or print. What you put into the bucket are things that make us feel good about who we are. Then, there are things that can make holes in our bucket that makes good feelings leak out. Then, instead of letting the holes leak out our good things about ourselves, we have to patch them. The plugs for the hole are things that make us feel better and what to do when we get these holes. Then, encourage creativity and let them design their bucket the way they want.
Purpose: Encourage individuals to feel confident in themselves, helps find their strengths, weaknesses, and different ways to cope.
Rationale & Impact on Function: Encourages children to try new things and participate effectively in school, at home and with friends.
The Book "Have You Filled Your Bucket Today" is a great book to read to your child in order to help with their self-esteem! You can find it on amazon.
Thetherapistparent. (2019, November 19). Self esteem bucket. The Therapist Parent. https://www.thetherapistparent.com/post/self-esteem-bucket
McCloud, C. (2015, October 1). Have you filled a bucket today?: A guide to daily happiness for kids: Paperback. Barnes & Noble. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/have-you-filled-a-bucket-today-carol-mccloud/1102047428
Brown, C., Stoffel, V. C., & Munoz, J. (2019). Occupational therapy in mental health: A vision for participation
(2nd ed.). F.A. Davis.
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